Being Thankful on November 27

Today was thanksgiving for all you Americans, but for the rest of us, this was just a normal day. But normal days are good days to be thankful, too.

I just got back from choir practice and I’ve been thinking that I’m thankful for music. Music is one of the ways we fill our longing for beauty, a longing that is ultimately filled only by the glory of God. From good music we get little glimples of something truly great and glorious, something beyond us that we crave but can’t quite grasp. I suspect that the craving for something beyond, for something perfectly, gloriously beautiful is, at it’s core, a longing for God. Good music stirs up our God-given longing for heaven and for God himself, pointing us, in the end, to the beauty and glory of God.

• Rosemary is thankful for “to have read these posts on thankfulness, and have added my hearty ‘amen’ to them. And I’m thankful for you, Rebecca!” (Am I blushing?)
• Tulipgirl is thankful “for how the Lord has used this time of purposeful thanksgiving to calm the anxieties I have been carrying.”
• Susie is thankful for the imputed righteousness of Christ. (Ah yes. Me too, as I keep saying over and over again like a broken record. But really, the wonder of imputed righteousness doesn’t ever get old for those who long to see God’s face. We have “no hope without it.” to quote the dying J. Greshom Machen.)
• Yet another Becky (a brand new participant) is thankful for her husband and more.
• Dawn is thankful for her eight-year-old grandson Zion.
• Willow is thankful for a slew of blessings.
• Suzanne is thankful for all our blessings both great and small.
• Connie is thankful for abundant blessings.
• Liz is thankful for diverse conversation and more.
• Dorothy is thankful for the gift of faith.
• Kim of Hiraeth is thankful for friends and family and someone very cute.
• Juanita is thankful for good books and resources and she has a list of them.
• Kim of The Upward Call is thankful for “God’s protection for my son and me yesterday.”

What are you thankful for?

I’m celebrating good gifts from God during the month of November and hoping you’ll be thankful for your good gifts, too. Here’s how you can join in the thanksgiving and even, perhaps, get something material from it. If you’ve posted something you’ve posted something you’ve expected me to include and you don’t see it on the list, please let me know. It’s a lot to keep track of and I do miss things sometimes.