Thanksgiving?

Getting ready for our Thanksgiving celebration. Expecting 30 in total over at our home tomorrow. Gets me to thinking: how is it that being thankful is becoming so scarce? Hard to reconcile our thanklessness, chronic complaining and discontent, with the super-abundance that makes us the envy of the world. 50 years of advertizement culture which is hell-bent on inspiring us to want more, more, more has created a culture of greed, envy, and gluttony. St. Paul wrote a stern warning about this in his letter to his apprentice, Tim. We'd be wise to take to heart his admonition: You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. (2 Timthy 3:1-2, New Living Translation)

Only the spiritual discipline of gratitude, counting our blessings and naming them one-by-one on a regular basis can innoculate us against this disease of ingratitude. Tomorrow we have a chance to rehearse our incredible blessings, and help cultivate an attitude of contentment. May we look at how the glass is near completely full, and look around to see who nearby needs a drink of the prosperity we enjoy. God gives us abundance in order to increase our standard of giving, not primarily our standard of giving. Hope you have success in becoming ThankFULL.