As I write this blog, Thanksgiving Day is coming to an end for another year.  We are blessed to be visiting our daughter and son-in-law this holiday. What a lovely day it was here in Vermont with snow covering the ground and trees with a blanket of white. It was a postcard perfect snowy New England day! Our meal was delicious, the company wonderful, the house cozy and warm, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade as fabulous as always and the football games were…well, we won’t go there. So much to be grateful for on this special day of thanks.

We are so blessed and fortunate and often take it for granted. Our lives go on day after day and I know I for one don’t stop and think about all the good things I have.  If something unpleasant happens, that is what I tend to dwell on and rehash it multiple times for no good reason or positive outcome. What is the point of that?

I need to remember my blessings from God.  I have a home, I ate today, I have clean water to drink, I have clean clothes to wear, I have dreams that I can work towards, I strive to have a kind heart, good wishes for others and become a better person and I am breathing clean air every day. Because of all of these wonderful gifts, I should be content.

All of these gifts come from God because of His unconditional love for us, especially the gift of His Son Jesus who died for our salvation. This is the greatest blessing that we have been given and the one for which we should be the most grateful.

In Psalm 7:17 we read these words. I will give the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

Let’s remember to not take what we have for granted and give thanks and be grateful for all His love and through that love, the gifts God bestows on us, not just at Thanksgiving, but everyday we are here on this earth.  Thanks be to God!

Patty