Thankful in spite of

At the time of this writing it is the eve of Thanksgiving 2008.  This year when you look at the news, if this is the only source to derive rationale for thanks, it would not produce thanks.  There is a significant drought to presently find thanksgiving in the current clippings.  Yet, I would suggest that if you are able to read this writing therein is reason alone to give thanks. 

 

With times the way that they are it is going to require that all would regain thankfulness for the things that we take for granted.  It is the simple things such as life.  Being alive in and of itself is a good staring place.  Life being the point of departure for thankfulness elevates the individual to transcendence of these terrible times.  There has been many advancements improving life yet it has contributed adversely to life as well.  The appreciation of life has been, unfortunately, relegated to an estimation based upon possessions.  This if true, especially during these current economical times, would really be disastrous.   Currently there are those that are loosing possessions, not by choice but due to the global economical constraints, daily.  Those who are experiencing these troubling occurrences would estimate themselves to have nothing to be thankful for as well as would be less than appreciative of life.

 

However, I would like to offer as a contradict a character that finds its origin in the Christ.  For this character the joy of the Lord is its strength.  There is a song writer that waxed so accurately in stating that “Jesus you’re the center of my joy.”  This offers an accurate gauge or tool for the measurement of life.  By that I mean the life that has Jesus at its center has joy.  This type of joy is not a situational influenced joy, no on the contrary, it is Sovereignty supplied, situated and sustained joy.  For the joy that is a situational joy is nothing more than happiness.  This relegates the emotion to being stimulated by tangible stuff.  On the diametric opposite of the aforementioned is a Sovereignty joy whose stimuli is enveloped in the Sovereign. 

 

Hence, I say to all we can all have a Happy Thanksgiving as well as life that is continuously occupied by joy.  In conclusion, given the present conditions every day is still a day of thanks.  I am simply thankful for life, my family, my church family.  I truly thank God for life and many other things.  I recognize that there is a blessing in just being alive.

 

Can you name something that you are thankful for?  

   

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