Chris Edwards, the editor of the Tyler County Booster, had an article emphasizing the need to be Grateful Again. We certainly need to be grateful!
Sadly, so many are not.
“I’m not grateful for anything!” That’s the statement I heard from someone who had overcome polio and lung cancer. That person was very bitter. However, she had a loving husband and loving children and a loving family all around her. Yet, she was not grateful.
Many years ago, when President Reagan released the cheese commodities, a woman was interviewed, and she said she didn’t like anything President Reagan did. However, she accepted the free cheese, butter, and rice.
Melvin Newland made this comment: “Has it ever occurred to you that no Americans were more underprivileged than that small handful from the Mayflower who started the custom of setting aside a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God? They had no homes and no government agency to help them build homes. They had no means of transportation but their legs. Their only food came from the sea and the forest, and they had to get it for themselves. They had no money and no place to spend it if they’d had any. They had no amusements except what they made for themselves, no means of communication with their relatives in England, no social security or Medicare.” Yet the Pilgrims were indeed grateful.
The children of Israel complained because they didn’t like eating mana every day. So, God gave them meat. And those who ate that quail died. (Read Numbers 11).
Please read the passages below:
Colossians 3:5: “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.”
Philippians 4:6: “do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”
