Et Tu? The Diary of a Former Atheist: “Out of the blue, I suddenly saw writing items on my grocery list in a completely different light: I realized what an incredibly — almost unimaginable — luxury it is to be able to simply write down what I want to feed my children, and be able to go get it. Quickly. Easily. Cheaply.”

iMonk tells the story of a suffering servant: “When I hear this kind of story, it is almost more than I can take. My faith is small and my tolerance for pain and loss is low. Questions of suffering and loss are not easy for me to contemplate. What would I do? Would God keep me? Would I despair, quit, abandon faith?
And here is Doc. Standing in front of our students, saying again and again that God is good. His suffering and loss can’t be measured, but his faith has grown every step of the way. In his gentle, Minnesota accent, he says over and over, ‘God is good. I’m so thankful.'”

Jim at The Culture Beat: “I wonder how many people are caught in a similar dilemma – wanting to thank someone, but not knowing who. I wonder if they feel that predicament more keenly this time of year.
Out of tradition or nostalgia, they may sing a hymn like, ‘Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home …,’ only to stumble at ‘God, our Maker, doth provide for our wants to be supplied.’ They are grateful for their families or their jobs or the food or for living in the richest nation on earth, but who to thank for that?”

Cindy (Dominion Family) suggests some Thanksgiving reading.

At a Hen’s Pace is thankful for candlesticks of abundant grace: “Last week we saw an incredible children’s theater performance of the musical ‘Les Miserables.’ The power of that story is unequalled, and the music is hauntingly beautiful. (I blogged about it the last time I saw it, too–as a parable of grace and law.) It’s been over a week, but still I can’t shake a truth that was conveyed by that story.”

Advice from Barbara at Mommy Life: “Since many of you are about to go into hyper-holiday mode as well – where you are preparing a wonderful event to delight your family, setting the stage to bring them closer to each other and closer to God in gratitude and prayer – I just want to remind you to Practice the Presence of God today.”

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!