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Carl and I were like two excited kids as we made our way to AT&T Stadium yesterday. We were gifted a parking pass directly across the street from the stadium. We joined the crowd to hoot, holler and wave our white rally towels when our Cowboys gave us even more reasons to be thankful on Thanksgiving Day. <\/p>\n\n\n
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Now we\u2019re packing up our suitcases to go over the river and through the woods to Epiphany Ranch where my Larry and Staci and their family and my Ryan and Shawntel and their family will converge for our Thanksgiving \u2013 the day after. This is a happy mama today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
THANK YOU, God, for my family! Notice I’m capitalizing “THANK YOU”! Did your mama ever tap you on your shoulder and whisper, \u201cSay, thank you!” Did you have to be reminded? Oh, but what pride and joy our mama had when she heard us, or we heard our own children, out of grateful hearts say, “THANK YOU!”….and meant it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How could we NOT say those two simple words? It doesn\u2019t seem possible to breeze through life without stopping to say, “Thank you\u201d. I\u2019m not talking about the mumbled thanks when someone holds open the door or passes the salt. I am talking about saying, and meaning the words, \u201cthank you.\u201d After all, telling someone, \u201cThanks,\u201d instead of saying, \u201cThank you,\u201d is sort of like the difference between saying, \u201cLove ya\u2019\u201d and \u201cI love you.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We should look others in the eye and be specific about why we are thanking them. \u201cWe loved the chocolate cake you made for us. Thank you so much!\u201d \u201cThank you for staying late last night and helping us make the deadline.\u201d \u201cThank you for the great service today; I really appreciate it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s so very simple, but for some reason, it seems so very hard for so many people to do. But how could we NOT thank a store clerk for their service or a family member when they have served us in some way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apparently, people moved along quickly in the Bible, too. Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem when ten men with leprosy, called out to Him for mercy. He simply told them to go show themselves to the priests. The priest was the one who could issue a life-giving letter of release that indicated they were disease-free. As they obeyed Jesus\u2019 orders to go, they were completely healed. Imagine their joy as they saw their skin repair itself and look like new again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But only one of the 10 returned and thanked Jesus: \u201cWhen he saw he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice. He fell at Jesus\u2019 feet and thanked Him.\u201d (Luke 17:15-16). Jesus wonderfully changed 10 lives, but only one came back to say, \u201cthank you\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
May we learn from that one grateful man. May we purposely pause, look that one in the eyes who served us, and say \u201cTHANK YOU!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
May thanks-giving be our new way of living. Most of all, may God receive THANKS for saving us, forgiving us, and providing for our needs each day! THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A BIG jumbo sized \u201cTHANK YOU\u201d, Lord, for our Dallas Cowboys\u2019 win over Washington Commanders yesterday. What a great time we had cheering for our team! I know that sounds trivial, especially in the light of many who are in a world of hurt today, But, why shouldn\u2019t we be THANKFUL in ALL things? Carl…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19111,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19100\/revisions\/19111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}