Thanksgiving After Thoughts

You know one of the reasons I write this blog is to encourage others to have good relationships. When I first started working in business, I didn’t realize how important these skills are. I was always the type of person to get along with everyone, but I never really showed my emotions. I wasn’t expressive. I didn’t realize that people needed to see my heart not just hear my words.

When I dove into the network marketing business, I realized I had to pick up these people skills to a higher level. Not only to a higher level but also to a higher calling with my Lord and Savoir. At first it was all business, and then it became about the people, and through the struggles I realized that I couldn’t do it all by myself. I needed the biggest hitter working on my side. “All things are possible through Christ.” Now this was a process that took some time. Interestingly enough, other people on my team were going through the same process and the relationships grew stronger.

Well that leads me to Thanksgiving. I didn’t set this up, but I was thankful to have a part in it. My buddies Frank and Sharon, Frank and I met years ago in the martial arts and we are in business together, and we got with Shawn and Karla, Chris, Keith, and some others, to do a Thanksgiving Meal for homeless mothers and their kids. Now what made it easy was that Frank runs a pizzeria and had all the tools needed to cook the meal. It was like a catering job. Let me tell you something, That turkey was among the best I had ever tasted. It was like butter slowly melting in your mouth. It was good!

Anyway, we all got together early Thursday morning before doing our own family time. And served the meal to these mothers. It was a good feeling for us all. When we got there we all shared with the mothers and ourselves why we were grateful. We said prayers. Frank read a devotional book from John Maxwell that was right on. We were done by 12:30 PM and headed back to our perspective homes.

I think we all got the message that life is more than about ourselves, and that we can get together, by no coincidence I might add, and do great things for each other and other people. And God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit gets the full credit, because with the inspiration from God we wouldn’t even have known what to do. God gets all the credit.

Which brings me to my next thought, about how far America is deviating from what make her great. I heard fellow once say, Tim Marks, on a recording, “We have the most educated society in the history of mankind, and yet we are further from the truth than ever before.” How true this is!

Just look at what happened at Wal-Mart the next day. A crowd of greedy people stampeding the doors for a black Friday bargain kills a man at a part time job. Not one person in that crowd had enough common sense to stop and realize this isn’t all that important anyway. For the life of me, I really can’t understand why anyone would wait in a line from 10 PM the night before. You must not place much value on your time to do that. Forget about the flu shot, our society needs a shot of righteousness to straiten our buts out. Bring morals and values back to America. Sure, there are a lot of people shaking their heads right now in agreement, but the proof is in the pudding. (Chef lingo)

Well getting back to Turkey Day, later that same day I saw the 700 Club do a piece on the history of Thanksgiving and I said that has to go in my blog. Yes, even if it takes until Dec 4 to write about it. This piece is so inspiring to see how our forefathers thought and why we are blessed so much by our God. I mean get real, how do you think a little nation made up of 13 colonies barely held together by a string, with not enough healthy soldiers, or enough supplies and weaponry, could have beaten the most powerful nation on earth at that time. Maybe it was Luck? Nope, I don’t think so, it was shear determination to be in the will of God. You will see that when you see this video. It is in George Washington’s own words, as he dedicates a national day of Thanksgiving.

I hope you enjoy, and remember being thankful is part of developing an attractive personality. God Bless.