These are first 2 of 50 verses on giving thanks at the Bible Study Tools website.
Psalm 107:1: "Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!"
Psalm 7:17: "I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High."
Family tradition has kept some semblance of he original celebration of the Pilgrims who shared food with Indians never eaten before. What we're usually thankful for is a season of putting on some extra "meat on our bones"; time off of work; watching football; and starting with the Christmas holiday shopping the next day along with dredging out Christmas decorations. I wouldn't recommend the movie Christmas vacation to kids (although they have seen worse most likely). The interesting thing was no matter how crude those movies were the family still stuck together. I mention this because the hypocrisy of family pride; manners and such (like never insulting the cook) can end up being a legalistic death trap of polite mannerisms; fakeness and constantly haranguing with out of control kids which our perpetuation of behaviors from our own childhood often don't help but cause a sort of "self-fulfilling prophecy" as it were.
Last year with my mom dying wasn't pleasant; I remember her never liking what I made with the culmination of that around Christmas when I tried to make a nice steak meal and had to run around to several stores trying to follow all her directions which wasn't easy. But saying all that I am glad to be able to serve her as a witness of Christ and that she got to hear the Gospel before she passed on. With my Dad institutionized I'm glad to be able to see him; and since my Aunt lost her daughter last Spring I'm glad to be able to see her this weekend as well. I'm going to attempt to prepare a meal for my friend still getting over pnemonia.
Let's have our light shine before men truly giving thanks for all He's done.
Psalm 107:1: "Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!"
Psalm 7:17: "I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High."
Family tradition has kept some semblance of he original celebration of the Pilgrims who shared food with Indians never eaten before. What we're usually thankful for is a season of putting on some extra "meat on our bones"; time off of work; watching football; and starting with the Christmas holiday shopping the next day along with dredging out Christmas decorations. I wouldn't recommend the movie Christmas vacation to kids (although they have seen worse most likely). The interesting thing was no matter how crude those movies were the family still stuck together. I mention this because the hypocrisy of family pride; manners and such (like never insulting the cook) can end up being a legalistic death trap of polite mannerisms; fakeness and constantly haranguing with out of control kids which our perpetuation of behaviors from our own childhood often don't help but cause a sort of "self-fulfilling prophecy" as it were.
Last year with my mom dying wasn't pleasant; I remember her never liking what I made with the culmination of that around Christmas when I tried to make a nice steak meal and had to run around to several stores trying to follow all her directions which wasn't easy. But saying all that I am glad to be able to serve her as a witness of Christ and that she got to hear the Gospel before she passed on. With my Dad institutionized I'm glad to be able to see him; and since my Aunt lost her daughter last Spring I'm glad to be able to see her this weekend as well. I'm going to attempt to prepare a meal for my friend still getting over pnemonia.
Let's have our light shine before men truly giving thanks for all He's done.
Agape. Rp
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