Reasons To Be Thankful

Can you believe that it is November already? Where have all the days gone? Still waiting on the fall foliage around here. It is a little slow going. But what better way is there to begin the holiday season than to list our reasons for being thankful. 

Today I am thankful for the silence. Silence is a gift, especially in this loud and crazy world we live in. We should be thankful for the silence, yet we usually dread it. We all look for ways to fill that void... with noise... sound from music and television to computer and video games. Sometimes it is just conversation to drown out the quiet. Make some time to just enjoy God's gift of silence today.

"A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak." ~Ecclesiastes 3:7

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse." ~Henry Van Dyke