After Glow Contentment
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Today is a day filled with laughter and joy, enjoying each other’s company. It is a day of sending texts to family and friends who couldn’t be with you on this day to let them know you love them and wish them a special day to partake with their loved ones, and let them know that they are in your heart.
After all the preparation work, of buying the food, preparing the food, decorating, feeling stressed, cleaning up, there’s a moment right before we dive into all the delicious food that was prepared, when people lift up a collective prayer to the Lord giving thanks for His providence and love, realizing that God has mightily blessed us!
I am grateful for this day. After all the leftovers are given out or put up, dishes done, family and friends saying their goodbyes and taking leave, a deep contentment sweeps over me. God is still in His Heaven and is in control. A moment to cherish each others company without discord and enjoy fellowship with each other as God would have us do, to love your neighbor as you love yourself.
For a short time, on Thanksgiving, our busy lives are put on hold as we reflect on the goodness of God. Let’s try to carry over thankfulness everyday even when the seas become rough forcing us to go through challenges. For God watches over you! Lift up your voice in praise knowing with confidence that God will see you through your days giving you peace beyond understanding, a contentment, and a hope for a future in Jesus.
”Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth . Worship the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful songs.
Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name.
For the Lord is good and His love endures forever;
His faithfulness continues through all generations.”
Psalm 100 NIV