Happy thankgiving?

Answer 1

Yes, it is! I'm sure there is SOMETHING worth being thankful for in your life! Be positive! some of the simpliest things to us that we take for granted...someone else may be without. Like hearing, seeing, walking, having a family, friends,or a warm bed, a warm meal, a job (even if it sucks), a car, your health... and if nothing else, we have a loving and forgiving God! Bless you for I know you will have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Answer 2

Yes, Happy Thanksgiving to All.

Answer 3

Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

Answer 4

Same to you and a warm abundance of happy full family around your table.

Answer 5

Happy thanksgiving to you too. We are truely blessed.

Answer 6

thanksgiving reminds me of food for some reason

Answer 7

Same to you.May you be thankful for all that has happened this year.

Answer 8

Same to you, enjoy every minute!

Answer 9

Thankful for Thorns ?(hard times in life)

Sandra felt as low as the heels of her shoes when she pulled open the
florist shop door, against a November gust of wind. Her life had been
as sweet as a spring breeze and then, in the fourth month of her second
pregnancy, a "minor" automobile accident stole her joy.

This was Thanksgiving week and the time she should have delivered their
infant son. She grieved over their loss.

Troubles had multiplied. Her husband's company "threatened" to transfer
his job to a new location. Her sister had called to say that she could not
come for her long awaited holiday visit. What's worse, Sandra's friend
suggested that Sandra's grief was a God-given path to maturity that
would allow her to empathize with others who suffer. "She has no idea
what I'm feeling," thought Sandra with a shudder. "Thanksgiving?
Thankful for what?" she wondered. "For a careless driver whose truck
was hardly scratched when he rear-ended her? For an air bag that saved
her life, but took her
child's?"

"Good afternoon, can I help you?" Sandra was startled by the approach
of the shop clerk. "I . . . I need an arrangement," stammered Sandra. "For
Thanksgiving? I'm convinced that flowers tell stories," she continued.
"Are you looking for something that conveys 'gratitude' this Thanksgiving?"

"Not exactly!" Sandra blurted out. "In the last five months, everything
that could go wrong has gone wrong." Sandra regretted her outburst,
and was surprised when the clerk said, "I have the perfect arrangement
for
you."

Then the bell on the door rang, and the clerk greeted the new customer,
"Hi, Barbara, let me get your order." She excused herself and walked back
to a small workroom, then quickly reappeared, carrying an arrangement of
greenery, bows, and what appeared to be long-stemmed thorny roses.
Except the ends of the rose stems were neatly snipped: there were no flowers.

"Do you want these in a box?" asked the clerk. Sandra watched - was
this a joke? Who would want rose stems with no flowers! She waited for
laughter, but neither woman laughed.

"Yes, please," Barbara replied with an appreciative smile. "You'd think
after three years of getting the special, I wouldn't be so moved by its
significance, but I can feel it right here, all over again," she said, as
she gently tapped her chest.

Sandra stammered, "Ah, that lady just left with . . . uh . . . she left
with no flowers!"

"That's right," said the clerk. "I cut off the flowers. That's the
'Special'. I call it the Thanksgiving Thorns Bouquet. Barbara came into
the shop three years ago, feeling much as you do today," explained the
clerk. "She thought she had very little to be thankful for. She had
just lost her father to cancer; the family business was failing; her son had
gotten into drugs; and she was facing major surgery . That same year I
had lost my husband," continued the clerk. "For the first time in my life,
I had to spend the holidays alone. I had no children, no husband, no family
nearby, and too much debt to allow any travel."

"So what did you do?" asked Sandra.

"I learned to be thankful for thorns," answered the clerk quietly.
"I've always thanked God for the good things in my life and I never
questioned Him why those good things happened to me, but when the bad
stuff hit, I cried out, 'Why? Why me?!' It took time for me to learn
that the dark
times are important to our faith! I have always enjoyed the 'flowers'
of my life, but it took the thorns to show me the beauty of God's comfort!

You know, the Bible says that God comforts us when we're afflicted, and
from His consolation we learn to comfort others."

Sandra sucked in her breath, as she thought about what her friend had
tried to tell her. "I guess the truth is I don't want comfort. I've lost a
baby and I'm angry with God .."

Just then someone else walked in the shop. "Hey, Phil!" the clerk
greeted the balding, rotund man. "My wife sent me in to get our usual
Thanksgiving arrangement . . . twelve thorny, long-stemmed stems!"
laughed Phil as the clerk handed him a tissue wrapped arrangement from
the refrigerator.

"Those are for your wife?" asked Sandra incredulously. "Do you mind
telling me why she wants a bouquet that looks like that?"

"Four years ago, my wife and I nearly divorced," Phil replied. "After
forty years, we were in a real mess, but with the Lord's grace and guidance,
we trudged through problem after problem, the Lord rescued our
marriage. Jenny here (the clerk) told me she kept a vase of rose stems
to remind her of what she had learned from "thorny" times.

That was good enough for me. I took home some of those stems. My wife
and I decided to label each one for a specific "problem" and give thanks for
what that problem taught us."

As Phil paid the clerk, he said to Sandra, "I highly recommend the
Special!"

"I don't know if I can be thankful for the thorns in my life" Sandra
said to the clerk. "It's all too . . . fresh."

"Well," the clerk replied carefully, "my experience has shown me that
the thorns make the roses more precious. We treasure God's providential
care more during trouble than at any other time. Remember that it was a
crown of thorns that Jesus wore so we might know His love. Don't resent the
thorns."

Tears rolled down Sandra's cheeks. For the first time since the
accident, she loosened her grip on her resentment. "I'll take those twelve
long-stemmed thorns, please," she managed to choke out.

"I hoped you would," said the clerk gently. "I'll have them ready in a
minute.""Thank you. What do I owe you?"

"Nothing. Nothing but a promise to allow God to heal your heart. The
first year's arrangement is always on me."

The clerk smiled and handed a card to Sandra . "I'll attach this card
to your arrangement, but maybe you would like to read it first."

It read:

"My God, I have never thanked You for my thorns. I have thanked You a
thousand times for my roses, but never once for my thorns. Teach me the
glory of the cross I bear; teach me the value of my thorns. Show me
that I have climbed closer to You along the path of pain. Show me that,
through my tears, the colors of Your rainbow look much more brilliant."

Praise Him for the roses; thank Him for the thorns. God Bless all of
you. Be thankful for all that the Lord does for you.

"Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, and leave the
rest to God."

Answer 10

gobble, gobble, gobble....Go team...who ever you are wanting to win....take a nap and really enjoy the day...