Why is it that our society totally skips over Thanksgiving? The day after Halloween the stores are setting up for Christmas. I love Christmas, but I also love Thanksgiving! I love the smell of the air, the color of the trees and just having a time to remember what I am thankful for and blessed with! I am such a blessed girl and my good friend/ pastor's wife Robin Fuller always reminds me when I am feeling sorry for myself to write out what I am thankful for! I find that when I do write them out, I have quite the list:-) Anyway I am not totally over the harvest season and refuse to decorate my house until December... so there!! The day after elections I got to thinking... election time is such a funny time because there are so many emotions wrapped up into it. No matter who you voted for and whether your canidate won or lost the truth of the matter is that we are visitors on this earth and that all of this will pass away! My God is still on the throne and very much aware of what is going on and what is to come. He is over all the kings of the land and He will use all things for His glory. So I am thankful first off to live in the best nation in the world, to have freedom to worship and pray to my Savior, to evangelize and talk about the gospel so freely, to have the right to vote and be apart of the making of history, and last but not least the power to be on my knees in prayer for the leaders that the Lord has placed over me and to watch the Lord at work!! That is only a few things that I am thankful for... I could go on and on but I don't want to bore you :-) Here is one of my most favorite and encouraging psalms...
"Come, everyone, and clap your hands for joy! Shout to God with joyful praise! For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is the great King of all the earth. He subdues the nations before us, putting our enemies beneath our feet. He chose the Promised Land as our inheritance, the proud possession of Jacob's descendants, whom he loves. God has ascended with a mighty shout. The Lord has ascended with trumpets blaring. Sing praise to God, sing praises; sing praise to our King, sing praises! For God is the King over all the earth. Praise him with a psalm!God reigns above the nations, sitting on his holy throne. The rulers of the world have gathered together. They join us in praising the God of Abraham. For all the kings of the earth belong to God. He is highly honored everywhere. "
Psalm 47: 1-9
