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Thankful, Grateful, Blessed!

This coming November 28, 2019, many Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving, a national holiday declared by President Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

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In 1931, President Franklin Roosevelt made it an official holiday to be celebrated the fourth Thursday in November.

Its roots are traced all the way back to 1621 when the colonists and local natives enjoyed a harvest feast of wild turkey, waterfowl, venison, ham, lobster, clams, berries, fruit, pumpkin, and squash.

Many Americans will gather around their tables with friends and family and give thanks to God for each other, their health, financial provision, and personal freedoms.

I’m looking forward to celebrating Thanksgiving around our dinner table with family this year.

My dad, Steven’s mom, our son and his family, and maybe my younger brother will be celebrating with us.

What’s on my menu?

Well, I’m planning to keep it simple:

Glazed ham, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, corn, green beans, stuffed celery, hot rolls with butter, my mother-in-law’s famous cranberry salad, and pecan and pumpkin pies with whipped topping.

Now, while I am super thankful for the blessings of family, good friends, personal freedoms, health, and financial provision, I have to say (I can’t help it) that I am most thankful for my eternal spiritual union with Christ! (John 14:20).

He made my forever flawless fusion with Him possible when He died on the Cross for me (John 3:16; 1 Corinthians 6:17; Hebrews 13:5).

Yeah, I know.

He died for you, too, and every other human being that has every lived on this earth.

But this truth isn’t “somewhere out there” for me.

It’s real and it’s personal (Galatians 3:2).

It’s inside of me.

He is inside of me (Romans 8:10; 2 Corinthians 4:6-7; 13:5; Galatians 1:15-16; 2:20; 4:19; Ephesians 3:17; Colossians 1:27; 2 Thessalonians 1:10).

Christ is my very life! (Colossians 3:4).

When I heard this Gospel—this good news that Christ died for my sins and to give me eternal life in Him—I believed it (Romans 1:16).

I received the eternal life of Christ into my very being (1 John 5:11).

It’s a spiritual marriage that will never end (John 3:29; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:22-32; Revelation 19:7-9; 21:2, 9; 22:17).

Physical life expectancy on this earth is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the vast ocean of eternal life in Christ!

So, this Thanksgiving (and every day) I will continue to be most thankful for my Happily Forever After with my Spiritual Bridegroom, Jesus Christ.

Thank You, Father God, for blessing me with every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:3)!

You have been so incredibly kind and good to me!

Dear reader, what are you most thankful for?

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