Thanksgiving Day 10:30am

Greetings and Happy Thanksgiving Day:

Hope you are all having a good day with family and friends and are not eating too much. Eric and Erin arrived last night and will have to leave tonight (after the Colts game).

Friday Morning 10:30am

Again Greetings to all:

Well I had great intentions yesterday but did not get them done. As you can see above I did get started but never got it completed. I guess that is the way it goes sometimes, and maybe there is more of a message today than there was yesterday.

What a great and positive day I had! Praise the Lord! Jennifer and Travis called to wish us a Happy Thanksgiving about mid morning. Jennifer was very busy getting the big dinner fixed, Travis was doing some work in the basement, the boys were playing and it sounded like having a positive time, and Travis’s parents were taking a nap. All was indeed well and we were certainly glad to hear from them.

After that conversation Erin and I got busy fixing the green beans and Eric went to work on the potatoes. We had a good time doing that and Erin is really quit the little helper. She use to help Marty in the kitchen, helps her dad at home, and we had a positive time yesterday and everyone said the beans were very good. Praise the Lord!

We went out to Francis and Cheryl J. and Betty, Kim, and David S. were there as well. As far as I am concerned I really had a positive time, and the food was awesome. God is so good – all the time. All the time – God is so good. The only real problem was that as usual I ate too much. But by not eating anything else the rest of the day I did indeed get over that without any problem. Praise the Lord!

Then it was home to watch the Colts – Go Colts!!!! - and of course they did not disappoint us. It is looking pretty good for this year again, if they can just stop getting hurt and get healed. It seems interesting that they have done so well the last few years and not had much injury, but are sure making up for it this year.

Well I give thanks for the positive day yesterday and to everyone who helped make it that way. Particularly I thank God for giving me life and fulfilling His promise to be with me during it. God is so good and so faithful. And I hope that all of you also had a positive day feeling God’s presence with you and giving Him thanks for life. But even more than that, I pray that the positive and good things, the love and grace of God, that was shared yesterday, with family and friends, will be continued in each of our lives each day, each hour, and each minute that we live. I believe that was the reason for the first Thanksgiving and so often, with all the material things that we have today, we truly loose touch with the really meaning of Thanksgiving. Yes, God wants to know that we appreciate what He has given us, all that He has given us, but He can see that when we use all of those things to glorify Him, and then give Him the thanks for life and the opportunity to be His children and servants. Praise the Lord! And as I have said before, it may not always be the way we want it to be, but in time it is God’s way and that is a good thing, because God is good, all the time – all the time, God is good. Praise the Lord!

A final thought for now that I want to share. God has had Psalm 100 on my heart all this week. I cannot tell you the number of times that I have repeated it and the meaning and comfort that it has brought to me in so many different ways. And though I normally just put down the scripture and hope that you will look it up and read it, this time I am going to print Psalm 100 for you to read, meditate on, and hopefully communicate (a two way street) with God.


Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Worship the Lord with gladness:
come before him with joyful songs.
Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.


Praise the Lord! May we, you and I, so live all our day’s to God’s glory.

Take care, be positive, and God bless.

Jack
Romans 8:28