MMM...The Smell of Pie

It is that time of year again...Starbucks is using their red Christmas cups, lights are popping up on houses, shopping is now serenated with Christmas carols, breaks from school, the smell of pumpkin pie and cinnamon fills homes everywhere. I have been trying really hard not to get into the Christmas air that is floating around. This is a battle in my head every year. We as a society tend to skip over Thanksgiving!

In my fight for Thanksgiving being a special time of thankfulness, here are a few things that I am thankful for:

1. My Savior dying on a cross while taking on all of my sin before he even knew me.

2. That I was born into a free prosperous country (contrary to where the economy is today)

3. The family that I was born into. We all have our quirks yet family is close to the only ones that have never given up on me.

4. My church family. Especially one particular family that is as close to an extension of my own family as I will ever get. (You know who you are)

5. The privelege to go to a public school and not be told how to think but encouraged to think on my own.

6. My friends. They get me through some of my toughest times even though some are hundreds of miles away.

7. My job, and my coworkers.

8. My freedom of religion. I can believe what I want to believe without fearing for that my life may be taken by the government.

9. My testimony. I didn't have to turn to drugs, sex, alcohol, etc to find my Savior.

10. My future. That I have one and that it is not in my hands but the hands of my Father.

I will praise the name of God with song and magnify Him with thanksgiving. And it will please the LORD better than an ox or a young bull with horns and hoofs.

Psalm 69:30-31