Our Family Ramblings!

I was walking around the store the other day and was really frankly disgusted that they put out Christmas stuff earlier every year! I LOVE Christmas and can't wait, but they seem to be neglecting a very important holiday! Thanksgiving seems to be fading into the back ground. Christmas gets earlier and Halloween gets bigger! We need to hold onto this holiday, not just because of the historic significance, but for our own relationship with our heavenly father. There is a day set aside that enables us to do what we forget to do through out the year. THANK Him for all he has done, been, and will do for us in the future!
1 Chronicles 16:34 says Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

We struggle with this concept in our house with the kids. "Be thankful!" Rings out of our mouths at least 3 times a day. How do we as parents instill that genuine spirit of thankfulness in our kids that are being raised in a very thankless society? They have the constant "ME" and "I Want" mentality thrown at them daily from TV, Print, friends, and other adults. I know we are to model thankfulness to our children, but do we really? It is very hard in this hard financial time. I realize this is a daily thing that should be done. We thank the Lord in our nightly prayers for our days and our things... but do they really get "thankfulness"? I am in the process of doing some research to come up with some family service projects that we can do throughout the year as a family. To take the focus off of our selfishness and onto others. I think when we do start to focus on others, a thankful spirit is easier to come by.

In the meantime, we have started our thankful jar. It is hard at the thanksgiving day table to come up with everything we should be thankful for and spout it off around the table, so we start a month or so before and each day at night we write down one thing we are thankful for and put the paper in the thankful jar. Then at our thanksgiving day table, we offer up our jar to the Lord with thanksgiving. We do read some of the papers, but our meal would get cold if we did all of them.

We are so blessed!! This month on this blog I want to focus on thankfulness! Even the simplest of things!! I did a post about a girl who knew she would lose her hearing in 30 days. WOW... what would do you do with that 30 days! The simple sense of hearing was now a major item of thankfulness for me thanks to this girls story! Thanks for the reminder!!

Today I thank the Lord for Thanksgiving! Not just for his historic value to our country , but for the day I can be reminded in a big way of the things I am thankful for. A day to examine my heart to say, "have I really been thankful for that hard trial." "am I thankful for those fights I could hear because you have blessed me with hearing!"

I am bringing Thanksgiving back!! THANKS for joining me on my blogging journey!!

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