Let us come before him with thanksgiving.
—Psalm 95:2
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
I love it because, of all holidays, it is the most restrained: less commercialized than the rest. Shopping centers jump from spooks to Santa, pumpkins to presents, orange and black to red and green.
Thanksgiving vibrates with national nostalgia. It nudges us to be grateful for both independence and dependence. Over two hundred years ago, our progenitors declared independence from national tyranny and recognized their dependence on each other for happiness and survival.
Thanksgiving reminds us to do what we ought to do every day: give thanks to our loving and generous Father. It turns our gaze heavenward to consider how good the Lord has been to us. He has given us the best place in the world to live out our days. All this and heaven too.
Happy Thanksgiving