Come, let us sing to the Lord!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come to him with thanksgiving.
Let us sing psalms of praise to him.
Hello friends!
I pray that you all are having a wonderful Thanksgiving with your close friends & family. Today has been a different one for me… I’m not allowed in the kitchen at all :o)
My family is taking me out to dinner as a way to thank me for all the cooking I do. We rarely go out so it is a big treat for all of us. We found a nice little restaurant that raise their own food organically and its located in the cloud forest of San Ramon… should be pretty. We found out about the place a while back and have been wanting to check it out. I will tell you guys all about it later and hopefully it will be a good experience… and yes, I’ll share pictures too!
Most important, I was blessed to spend the morning reading my Bible about thankfulness, joy & peace. It was very refreshing, uplifting and a great reminder for me that everyday is a day of thanksgiving… not just today! After reading several different scriptures, I quickly realized that when we step out with thankfulness… joy and peace will follow. It reminded me that God desires for me to live in constant state of thanksgiving… everyday… every moment… to thank Him for the air we breath, the colors we see and the life we live. We don’t deserve it, but it is freely given to us. Wow.
Now, I need to go get ready!
For the Lord is a great God,
a great King above all gods.
He holds in his hands the depths of the earth
and the mightiest mountains.
The sea belongs to him, for he made it.
His hands formed the dry land, too.
Come, let us worship and bow down.
Let us kneel before the Lord our maker,
for he is our God.
We are the people he watches over,
the flock under his care.
Psalm 95: 1-7
Divina Pe says
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. We don’t really celebrate Thanksgiving with turkeys etc although some people do. But you’re right that everyday is a day of thanksgiving. Sometimes I do forget that I have a lot of things to be thankful for even not having a job for so many years. One of the things I’m thankful is that I’ve met you, even through the web. Hope you enjoyed your dinner with family.
Betsy says
I love that Psalm. Happy Thanksgiving to you!
Brittney Harmon says
honestly, “thanksgiving” annoys the heck out of me. I feel like it’s just another excuse to stuff ourselves and pretend to be grateful for all the crap we have.
I know that there are those that don’t celebrate to their gluttony and even help those that do have less than them, but as a whole I the we get a big FAIL in the US.
I totally agree that thanks giving should be every day, and for suffering (it talks about the joy of suffering in christ in almost all of the books of the new testament) as well as blessings! in giving thanks we should be looking to God and not at ourselves… lets just be thankful that God is who he is!!!
Good post, hope you enjoyed your day off from cooking :o)
My Little Space says
May god bless you & your family! Cheers.
Stephanie says
I hope you had a wonderful time 😀
Marillyn Beard says
Thank you everybody! We had a good time and good food :o) Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving too!
JennDZ - The Leftover Queen says
I am glad you got a nice treat for Thanksgiving, Mare! You totally do deserve it!