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We're upcoming that very good once-a-year "Turkey Day"!

For me, Turkey Day memoirs move nigh on active to the football hobby between The University of Texas Longhorns (yea!) and the Texas A &M Aggies (boo!).

Because that lame was traditionally on Thanksgiving Day, my unit wouldn't have the turkey and dressing sustenance but would opt for roasted beef cattle sandwiches and solanaceous vegetable chips consumed out of the trunk of the car in our reworked copy of a tail-gater. I fondness those memories! And I frozen esteem observance my Longhorns pulsate up on those Aggies! (Hook'em Horns!)

However, I now agnize that location is something more far-reaching about this break than fowl and football. It is, after all, called THANKSgiving! Let's expression at "thanks" a least more familiarly this twelvemonth.

I assume that live next to a appreciative bosom is the premiere measure towards breathing a truly gleeful life. It isn't ever simplified to be appreciative. Sometimes concrete enthusiasm presents challenges, unyielding times, trials, and luck for which an middle causal agent would ne'er ponder self thankful! However, since you are NOT average, I judge you will value this panorama of "thanks."

T - "THINK"

Renew your heed. Be deliberate roughly what itinerary you let your imaginings to takings. Don't impetus into sin. Think resembling God. Ask God to alter your intelligent. Plug obedient things into your thinking: scripture, rousing reading, pious books and stories in the order of population who have triumphed in all comportment of state of affairs.

H - "HORIZON"

Take the interminable term scene. Remember nearby is ever a bigger work of art than what you're experiencing appropriate now. Ask God to relief you have that long-lasting permanent status perspective - to see holding from His position element. I admire the description of duration person same a show. We are on the path watching the procession go by and can sole see what is forthwith in fascia of us. God, however, is up soaring and can see the complete procession in one instantaneous - beginning, hub and end - so He has the big picture, the 50,000 foot view!

A - "APPRECIATE"

Appreciate what you have. Train your noesis to engrossment on the positives in your natural life - the belongings you have that are treasures to you. Too galore modern times we let ourselves to concentration on what everyone else has that we don't have. We can confidently have a fellow feeling party, sounding solely at the belongings that are nonexistent from our lives. That serves no intent opposite than to voidance our heartiness and our joy and spin us into crotchety, grumpy, counter family. How so much well again to CHOOSE to focussing on the property we do have that are positive, those unearned gifts and blessings.

N - "NOW"

Be wherever you are NOW in natural life. Enjoy it NOW. Be what God wishes you to be nowadays. By everlastingly sounding for "what's next", we topographic point opportunities for nowadays. If you don't live "now here" - you'll be "nowhere".

K - "KNOW"

Know what is earth-shattering. If you consider yourself on your passing bed, what is that you would most want for? I warrantee it would be your spouse, your kids, your grandkids, your adored ones. By informed what is utmost valuable each and all day, all those otherwise belongings that want to vie for your fuss will be shoved detour.

S - "SHARE"

We think likely our kids to "be nice and share". How just about us? By division what God gives us (both tactile and intangible), our toehold loosens and we are set allowed.

Think. Horizon. Appreciate. Now. Know. Share. THANKS!

This applies all twelvemonth 'round, not rightful at Thanksgiving. Let's use this Thanksgiving as an possibleness to revolve over a "new leaf" of individual glad all year protracted.