Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. What do you have to be thankful for?

Question

Thanksgiving has been celebrated as a day to give thanks to God for His gracious and sufficient provision. President Abraham Lincoln officially set aside the last Thursday of November, in 1863, “as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father.”

I'm thankful that I live in a country that was founded on Christian principles, founded by Christian men. Wether you want to believe it or not, America is a Christian country, based on Christian morals.

Who here is thankful for that?

Answer 1

I will give my thanks to my parents for putting up with me as long as they have, and making it possible for me to live the life I need to live at this point in my life.

I will give thanks to my sister for the ups and downs of our sibling relationship, as much for the bruises as for the bandages.

I will give thanks to my dog for being an unending source of unconditional love, acceptance, and admiration.

I will give thanks to my friends for being there to help me with my needs and for having needs I can help them fill.

I will give thanks to my family-of-choice, those who are my family not by blood but by common goals and common unity, for teaching me that family runs thicker than blood. (To any furries who might be here reading this, I'm talking to you. Thank you, even if I don't know you, you are my family-of-choice)

I will give thanks to myself for being an idiotic genius, for finding myself insightfully blind and blindingly insightful, for being the perfectly logical paradox and being paradoxically logical, for being many-in-one and one-in-many, the dichotomy from which all my dreams and nightmares flow.

I will not, however, be giving thanks to your version of deity, or any other version, simply because I don't believe in one. But if beliving brings you meaning and peace, then I am thankful you have that belief.

Good cheer, good food, and good thanks!

(And no, it wasn't founded as a christian nation: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhPrqyaycLpKIUSE.DeWpT7sy6IX?qid=20061122200308AAPVVqD )

Answer 2

Not only on Thanksgiving I thank God every morning, through out the day and at night for all the things He blesses me with. Having a job, a home, food and a wonderful Family.

Answer 3

hmmm, im thankfull for the voters, who realized that we were going in the wrong direction in this country.

The idea that the country was founded on christian principals is really a misnomer. the country was founded by a counter-culture movement that was trying to escape religous presecution from europe. there were roughly half christians, but others comprised of mostly jews and diests.

The declaration of independance was written by a diest, the bill of rights was spearheaded by diests and an aethiest. and many of our founding fathers were diest/aethiest. these are including thomas jefferson, benjamin franklin, james madison, and george washington to name a few.

Answer 4

My seventy one 300 and sixty 5 days old Dad is on the beginning up tiers of dementia/Alzheimer's - i'm grateful i'm getting to confirm him and that he could submit to in thoughts this Thanksgiving. He nonetheless recollects us and is doing ok - yet he's dropping his memory fantastically rapid. i'm additionally very grateful for my husband and childrens and the happy life we lead. i'm very happy your spouse is improving. I very just about died various circumstances at age 29 from a ruptured appendix and the lots of issues and surgeries that resulted. those have been frightening circumstances.

Answer 5

I'm am Thankful to God.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

May God Bless and Keep you in all you do.

In Christ
Jo

Answer 6

What I'm thankful for:
Family, My Parents, Friends, God, My Christian religion, The church that I attend, My Dog, My neighbors, My House, So many things that i'm thankful for. I could go on and on. But not enough space to list.

Answer 7

I'm thankful that I live in a country where we have freedom of religion, and no one *has* to live according to a religious doctrine they don't choose.

I'm grateful I have a good job, a wonderful family, and the chance to start my life over this year. I do thank God for helping me get to this point.

Answer 8

Ok fine... you pushed me to be sentimental...So I'll do this (please be patient, this could take a minute)

I am thankful for a lot of things this year.. Im thankful that I made it another year, when I almost didnt. Thankful for my baby brother who is 2 living breathing miracles. Im thankful that after many years of resentment, my father and I have made amends and have rebuilt our relationship. I am thankful to still be able to work and have been provided with 2 jobs I dont hate. Im thankful for my best friend Mark who has seen the best and worst of me and stood by me through everything. I am thankful for my girlfriend Cara, even though she is in another country right now she hasnt let the distance come between us. Im thankful for my mom who has always been my loudest cheer leader. She is the one who unofficially named me "Impossible Dream" and has backed me in every dream I ever had.


Ok.... nuff of the mushy stuff now.... lets have pie! :D

Answer 9

I am thankful for Jesus who paid the price for sin on the cross with His precious blood. I am thankful that God's mercy is new each morning.

And for God's Word the bible, for family, friends, a roof over my house, hot running water, the way God provides for all of our needs,
the beauty of God's creation, rainbows, my sleep number bed, bass shoes (so comfy), the freedom we have in this country to homeschool, the freedom we have in this country to worship, laughing, singing and dancing with my children etc..etc...etc...

Answer 10

I'm thankful I'm alive. A friend of mine, Katie, was killed in a car crash about a month ago. She had only been in college w/ me for a couple of months, and then God called her home. Having heard about such a terrible tragedy makes me realize that I'm not guaranteed tomorrow, so I thank God that He brought me home safely from college.

Answer 11

I am thankful for dishes to wash and family to argue with and clothes to mend and a job to complain about and most of all for God who loves me.

Also for other open-minded people who aren't afraid of the Truth of God's great love for us and proudly call themselves Christians.

Oh, and the entire book of John.

And windy overcast days and apricot sunsets and thunder.