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Category: Holidays / Topics: Gratitute • Holidays • Holiday Season • Thanks, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving
How about a Thanksgiving Year
Posted: November 28, 2010
Because one day in November just isn't enough…
Thanksgiving Day is not enough.
We need a lot days more
to count our blessings in life's game
and tabulate the score.
Perhaps we need Thanksgiving Year
to properly declare
our gratitude to God above
with folded hands and prayer.
Thanksgiving Year. That's quite a thought.
A constant attitude.
A daily focus on God's gifts
that call for gratitude.
But lest you think Thanksgiving Year
means turkey every day,
don't get your giblets in a knot.
There is a better way.
Roast beef and chicken work just fine.
And sushi, pork and fish.
You can express your thanks to God
while eating what you wish.
And for dessert the same applies.
You don't need pumpkin pie
to train your palette to say thanks
instead of griping "why?"?
A year-round feast of gratitude
is what our nation needs
to nourish our anemic faith
and starve us of our greed.
Thanksgiving Year would call to mind
how little we deserve.
How blessed we are in spite of faults
and ways we all can serve.
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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