24
2011
Rest as Worship: Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving: the one official day each year where we stop and reflect on life and what we are thankful for. TV and movies show us portray Thanksgiving with wildly dramatic speeches about what we are thankful for. Often these speeches include the big things like our families and other loved ones… but Seth Caddell thinks that we ought to be remembering the little things as well.
I tend to agree.
This year I am thankful for the little things that I tend to take for granted throughout the course of my day to day. Things like the way that Theresa makes sure that I look nice (or pretty) before I head out to a meeting, or how the guys in my Tuesday morning bible study are regularly asking about my father in law’s health (and the many of you around the country committed to praying for him). I am thankful for how one of the pastors at our church frequently checks in with me, asking how Theresa and I are doing, and for a friend in Jersey who I can slip out to have lunch with and know that he will ask me the hard questions that need to be asked.
I am grateful for my family and friends, but I am more grateful for the relationships that we have deepened over the course of the last year.
I know that several of the people that I have mentioned read this regularly… thank you for your friendship.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving, celebrate well… and if you happen to be having banana pudding, would you mind saving me some?
About the Author: Matt Steen
Over the last fifteen years I have been a Church Planter, Youth Pastor, Executive Pastor, and now I serve as a Church Concierge with churchsimple.net. I love Jesus, my wife, the Redskins and Capitals and am currently living on Long Island striving to properly pronounce the word G'island.
