Thanksgiving Day is a very special holiday for many families. Family traditions are often carried out on this day in many homes. It is also a good time to remember what we often forget to say - that we are grateful to be together and to acknowledge with thanks, each other. It is a time to thank the people who have made a difference in our lives. Many warm thoughts come to mind.

Recently, I read some thoughts by Albert Schweitzer a pioneer African missionary, and I would like to share his thoughts on thankfulness. "To give thanks is not only a happening that embraces the whole purpose of creation within itself, it is also an experience. He who thanks God with his whole heart experiences something. He is himself, enriched. All too often we think we are destitute of joy and fortune. Our lives seem empty and unsatisfied, and we know not why. Now take a look at yourselves. The times of poverty within are the times when you do not give thanks to God. What life brings has no value in itself. It acquires value only by our giving thanks to God. Today at the harvest Thanksgiving, it is not those who have gathered much into their barns who are rich. Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience, but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience. Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant, and bright." Albert Schweitzer.

May every day of the year be a day of thanks, with an attitude of gratitude. Warm thought: "The year that is drawing toward it's close has often been filled with the blessing of fruitful fields and healthful skies. They are the gracious gifts of the God most high." Abraham Lincoln. Have a beautiful, thankful day!

Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea by Luetta G Werner

Published in the Marion Record, November 28th, 1996.
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