Posted on 11/18/2007 10:24:13 PM PST by goldstategop
While the liberal press belittles our troops' selflessness, and their families try to cope with separation and loss again during the holidays, I felt the need to take a break from my endorsement series of Mike Huckabee to address an important question.Thanksgiving is a duty before it's a feeling or a festivity. It is commemorated once a year, but thanks-living was never intended to be bound up in a single day. As a friend told me, "Gratitude is a seasoning for all seasons. Thanks-living is a college from which we never graduate."
Giving thanks is still a choice, especially in times of adversity and suffering. Though it is definitely not easy, it is always possible to list our assets alongside our losses. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a prisoner and martyr under Hitler, wrote in his cell, "It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich."
The fact is, in difficult times, we must call up our reserves. We must choose to be thankful even if we don't always feel it. We must make a choice like Helen Keller, who said, "So much has been given to me, I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied." If she can say that, can't we?
Thanksgiving is still born in adversity. It is still a holiday for the courageous – those who face their fears and fight to remain thankful. So perhaps, for many of us, Thanksgiving will mean even more this year than in the past.
And before you eat your Thanksgiving meal, don't forget to thank God for our troops too. While they serve freedom for us, the least we can do is serve them a little honor and remembrance.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
So true and same to you & yours!
Chuck Norris killed all 22,000 by round house kicking the first in the line, but before that he stared at them until they all basted themselved.
Chuck Norris put the “laughter” in Manslaughter.
Nice find. It is beautifully written, thanks for sharing.
Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.
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