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Thanksgiving:

Thanksgiving means a lot of things to a lot of people all different but with the same theme. “I am so happy that I have (insert blessing here.) But in this I differ. I feel I can not rightly see my blessings that way. Oh sure I could sit here and name a thousand things that make me happy, but let's look at it in reverse, because most times I am thankful for the things I don't have in greater quantities, than the blessings I've acquired.

So here is a list of things I am VERY thankful that I don't have to deal with... truths and horrors that others deal with on a daily basis.

I am thankful I don't have:

1. AIDS

2. cancer

3. homelessness

4. starvation

5. dysentery

6. spiritual poverty

7. regular poverty

8. abusive relationship

9. full blown addiction

10. brain tumor

11. no plumbing

12. loneliness

13. deformities

14. an ill child or spouse

15. lack of education

16. living in a war-zone

17. recent death of a loved one

18. living in a police state

19. being illiterate

20. a recent natural disaster

21. lack of civil liberties

22. no freedom of worship

23. psychotic breaks

24. dying of thirst

25. spiritual death

That's just off the top of my head. There is an old song that says, “Charity is the coat you wear twice a year.” If I can extend my hand to another in need I will always feel blessed... no matter how small and trivial I may think that need is. What God gives freely I give freely.

Every day when we are bitching about our mom, our job the wrong gift or whatever... I think we should stop and think for a minute of the horrors that others face every single day of their lives. We need to be of service to one another every day. If we did that, we'd have a whole lot more to be thankful for now wouldn't we?

That's my side of it,

Angel

PS. Happy Thanksgiving!