Life is difficult. Very few people would claim that life is without difficulties and challenges, disappointments and regrets. We would like to change some things about the past. We wish there were “do overs.” Things have not come out as we planned, hoped, dreamed. People, even in our own family and among those closest to …
Category Archives: Thanksgiving
Just thinking….Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving Day! Can we talk briefly? Will you think with me? On Thanksgiving, we are often thankful for those things that separate us from others — things that identify us as special or extra blessed in comparison to the rest of humanity. When we are thankful for health, freedom, our nation, or abundant physical …
Happy Thanksgiving!
In whatever circumstances you find yourself today, Jan and I wish you a day in which you can see the way in which God has uniquely blessed your life. Twenty years ago today, Thanksgiving was forever changed for us when my mother and stepfather died in an auto accident on this day as they were …
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is for me a favorite holiday. As a holiday, it is still relatively pure. It has largely retained its original intent–gratitude. Many of us still remember the story of the Pilgrims and we talk about our blessings with an attitude of gratitude, recognizing God is the giver and sustainer of life. Not that there …
Thanksgiving: The Satisfying Life
The days around the Thanksgiving holiday traditionally give cause for counting blessings–they are also good days for rethinking priorities. Some research suggests that the great American search for prosperity and wealth is giving way to measuring life by other standards. Definitions of what makes life satisfying are changing. Satisfaction by consumption is giving way to …
Thanksgiving 2011
Happy Thanksgiving! I like Thanksgiving. For many years, it was one of the “purer” U.S. holidays–a time to be thankful and spend time with family. Only in recent years has Christmas commercialism invaded. Today I will be thankful. I do not plan to make a list, but I resolve to see the blessings of my …
Thanksgiving
Dear Readers, On this Thanksgiving Day, I am thinking about the blessings of God in my life. More specifically, I am thinking about the mission work God is enabling at Baxter Institute and Clinic in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. I am thankful for the opportunity to be involved in this work. I am thankful for the ways …