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With Thanksgiving

by Jerry Ousley  
6/14/2007 / Holidays


The holidays are fun aren't they? Well aren't they? In a few days we will be feasting on Thanksgiving Dinner, watching football and then on to Christmas shopping. I'll never understand why the ladies want to get up before dawn the day after Thanksgiving, hit the road to their favorite mall and turn from ladies to raging maniacs. I'd much rather spend the day watching action movies or something.

The holidays are times when a lot of us put on a few extra pounds due to multiple dinners on Thanksgiving and Christmas. We all know what it's like to want to please all those extended families. I've known of some who have eaten as many as three full dinners on Thanksgiving Day. How can you not put on some extra tonnage? I'd like to think that my current weight situation is due to the many holiday dinners I've had over the years, but that's probably just a good excuse on my part.

The holidays can also cause us to be anxious. Don't you just love the way TV commercials advertise the latest and best in toys, video games and clothing styles this time of year? I guess who can blame them. After all they're just trying to make a living too. But then we've got to get to the mall the morning after Thanksgiving, stand in line for possibly hours waiting for the store to open, then rush like we're racing for a million bucks to get one of those items that are the ones every kid wants for Christmas but there's only a limited supply. Man, I think I'd rather face line of blockers; at least they only want control of the ball and don't want to step on your face to beat you in line all to spend your hard earned money for a gift that little Johnny will play with for two weeks and then put on the shelf as another Christmas memento.

As Thanksgiving begins, let's first of all remember what the original holiday was all about. It was to give thanks to God for a good harvest and for having enough food to get through the next hard winter. I'd say that Americans have come a long way since those first days wouldn't you?

Giving thanks to God is something that should be a daily routine for us. Giving thanks with an attitude of real gratitude can work wonders in our lives. It causes us to slow down and think about all those simple, daily things we so easily take for granted. It also helps to ease those anxious emotions that have been proven to aggravate and actually cause sickness and disease. Paul wrote in Philippians 4:6: "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God." Try it this season. It will make all the difference in your world.

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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