I know it is hard to look beyond all the marketing hype that has relegated Thanksgiving to a date holding back the shopping frenzy that has become Christmas. But, I refuse to let the marketing machine win. Thanksgiving is a holiday of looking back (over all that we have triumphed) and allowing ourselves to gaze forward (holding on to that wistful thing called hope).
Thanksgiving is a time of standing up among the carnage and rubble that may be our lives at the moment and proclaiming to the world “I’m still here!” A time of realizing that “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
And so I say to all this Thanksgiving: I for one am glad you are still here. I also stand with you in hope for all the things you want to come to pass.
Happy Thanksgiving!