Garden of Hope: Thanksgiving

Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Thanksgiving

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Most people think it is all the yummy food you can eat and getting together with family. Which is some of the good parts, but I always enjoyed hearing the story of the pilgrims and there first Thanksgiving. But what I think is the most important is thanking God for all that he has done to shape who we are today. Through the struggles and the times that were good. We can look back and see God was there leading us all the way. Though when we go through the trials we don't always see Him, thats when I think of the Footprints in the sand poem:

One night a man had a dream. He dreamed
he was walking along the beach with the LORD.

Across the sky flashed scenes from his life.

For each scene he noticed two sets of

footprints in the sand: one belonging
to him, and the other to the LORD.

When the last scene of his life flashed before him,
he looked back at the footprints in the sand.

He noticed that many times along the path of

his life there was only one set of footprints.

He also noticed that it happened at the very
lowest and saddest times in his life.

This really bothered him and he
questioned the LORD about it:

"LORD, you said that once I decided to follow
you, you'd walk with me all the way.
But I have noticed that during the most
troublesome times in my life,
there is only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why when
I needed you most you would leave me."

The LORD replied:

"My son, my precious child,
I love you and I would never leave you.
During your times of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you."

That God caries us through those times that are rough. And we can thank Him every step of our life time, the good and troublesome. So thank you Lord for those times in my life that have been struggles, because I know you have a plan and that over all your Kingdom will over rule and you will reign forever. - Amen

But then of course we can enjoy the food, the Lord has provided and enjoy our family and friends on the day we are to be thankful!! Have a happy Thanksgiving!!

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Psalms 8

O Lord, our Lord, how majectic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babies and infants, you hve established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the advenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man to be mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yes you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominon over the works of you hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the path of the sea. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Psalms 1

Blessed in the man who walks not in the councel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the Lord and on his law he meditaes day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yeilds its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all he does, he prospers. This wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knows the was of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.