Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!

Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!

Thanksgiving is my favorite time of the year.  Tons of good food, sweets and family gatherings all help me to maintain a healthy perspective on life and a hopeful future for my children and grandchildren.  The food I can control; what’s another couple of pounds on the old frame my conscience silently whispers, as I have that second serving of potato pie covered in whipped cream?

I was doing so well with my weight maintenance program this year.  I had even worked my way down to a pants size 34 earlier in the year.  After a New England cruise I’m back to a size 36. If I control myself I should be able to maintain a 36 since they are still a little loose. I’ll blame my weight gain on the convenience of my scale—size 34, 36 and 38 jeans that I keep inventoried on the closet shelf. 

The dark side of life tells the world that they have no control over the future of anything, including children and grandchildren. Listening to the news and watching television would make one want to accept and agree with the message of doom and gloom. Where Godlessness, sexual immorality, greed and corruption abound a hopeless and fatalistic view of life permeates every individual who does not have the light of this world, Jesus Christ, in their heart and soul.  

Those of us who grew up in an age of innocence and morality, (I may be stretching it here a little since our generation, the nineteen fifties era, allowed the country to become what it has become because of our silence.) can see what worldliness and materialism is doing to America in creating an “anything goes” society.  Many young people do not see what their future holds either for themselves or for their nation once God’s removal has been made complete and there is no longer a moral, Godly compass to guide them.

From a materialistic standpoint the message of hopefulness has credence, but from a spiritual standpoint the message is wrong.  Through God’s Son, Jesus Christ, you can be set free from materialistic and worldly views of life.  My children have chosen to serve the risen savior and to bring up their children and my grandchildren in the light of His promise of eternal life—a grandparents answered prayers.  There is still hope that a single individual’s return to God can lead others by their example and ultimately the nation to a return to its founder’s ideals and institutions.

It is my prayer for you and your family that Thanksgiving Day will be a day of celebration when you, as hopefully all of American, will pause to give thanks for being so blessed and fortunate to live in the greatest nation on earth.  It is also my prayer that you and your family, if you are not already doing so, my also come to serve the risen savior and in so doing inherit eternal life.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son” John 3:16-17 NIV.

May God bless you as He has blessed me and my family!

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