Thanksgiving 2013


“Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.”

As we pass Thanksgiving, I look back on yesterday and remain in thought as to how many people, myself included stopped for a minute to think and say a simple thank you. I know I didn’t until I went to bed, therefore, in my nightly prayers. It was a simple task, and we forget. We are only human as the saying goes, so we are expected to forget, be mean, and completely ignore our responsibility to be a good person or at least try.

I went to the store the other night. I was stopped about 3 yards from the door, engine was running and I was waiting on my mother to come out. My daughter was in the backseat. I was not blocking anyone in and was conscious and still looking around making sure I was ok to be there. Out of nowhere a man came up in front of my car, banged both fists on my hood and proceeded to use some choice words I would rather not repeat rather loudly. I calmly looked at him and merely whispered “Merry Christmas”. It didn’t make a difference as my engine was running and windows were up. My daughter was spooked to say the least and upset. I told my mother what had happened and she of course used some other choice words also.

Now as I look back on that incident, I have to ask….isn’t this the season for good will toward man? Are we not supposed to dig deeper within ourselves and search for that something special, the something that comes from our soul and not our human side? Isn’t the attitudes I mentioned previously the reason the world is so angry and in wars? Whether or not we agree on this one concept, I am disheartened that in this season we are still so busy being angry and mean towards others. Not even in this season do we take a break from that frame of mind. Ironically enough, if those same people were on the receiving end of such vile and mean attitudes, I’m willing to bet they would be the first to complain.

So, in this season as we start with Thanksgiving, remember to give it. Say thank you, be kinder to people…try to make a change for the better and let’s start with ourselves. Look in the mirror and be honest with yourself. No one else needs to know. You won’t be embarrassed because your friends will think you’re not man enough or your girlfriends will think your perfection is flawed. No one needs to know but you and the person staring back in the mirror.

Sadly enough it seems as though the holidays and their meaning have completely gotten out of hand and much colder as the years passed. Nothing was open Thanksgiving Day in years passed and people were kinder to each other, a lot more smiles as you pass them on the street. Yesterday, everything was open, all day….and why…..to suit our materialistic need to spend money for a gift for someone we may or may not truly care for.

I can only pray that Christmas is not as money bound and hateful as Thanksgiving seemed to be.

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