{"id":1689,"date":"2018-11-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2018-11-21T05:41:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T05:41:26","slug":"thankful-that-im-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/thankful-that-im-thankful\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful That I\u2019m Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-html-block\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/77r6m-9dea32?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/77r6m-9dea32?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">For some people, Thanksgiving is just another occasion for feasting, football, and resting up for \u201cBlack Friday\u201d. As someone has said, <strong><em>\u201cIf God had meant for us to not stuff ourselves on Thanksgiving, God would never have created 40-pound turkeys.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Comic Strip, <strong><em>Hi and Lois<\/em><\/strong>, the son asks, as they have gathered around the Thanksgiving table, <em>\u201cWhy do we always have turkey on Thanksgiving?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lois hesitantly answers, \u201cWell\u2026because it\u2019s a tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The son asks: <em>\u201cWhat\u2019s a tradition?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/em>His brother interrupts to say, <em>\u201cSomething we\u2019ve been doing for so long we can\u2019t even remember why.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>That\u2019s the danger, isn\u2019t it? That we forget what Thanksgiving is all about.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>I\u2019m reminded of a church Thanksgiving party I went to several years ago. In the course of the party each participant was asked to say what he or she was especially thankful for.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Many of the usual blessings were mentioned. But a timid young girl said, <strong><em><u>\u201cOh, I\u2019m just thankful that I\u2019m thankful.\u201d<\/u><\/em><\/strong> What a wonderful feeling to have! We ought to be thankful that we are thankful.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><em>When I am truly thankful, I remember my debts to those who have gone before me. <br \/>I think seriously about my responsibilities to those who will come after me. <br \/><u>And most of all, I thank God for never, ever giving up on me<\/u>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For some people, Thanksgiving is just another occasion for feasting, football, and resting up for \u201cBlack Friday\u201d. As someone has said, \u201cIf God had meant for us to not stuff ourselves on Thanksgiving, God would never have created 40-pound turkeys.\u201d In the Comic Strip, Hi and Lois, the son asks, as they have gathered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",150,150,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1.png",100,100,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1540735062_featured-1-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"&nbsp; For some people, Thanksgiving is just another occasion for feasting, football, and resting up for \u201cBlack Friday\u201d. As someone has said, \u201cIf God had meant for us to not stuff ourselves on Thanksgiving, God would never have created 40-pound turkeys.\u201d In the Comic Strip, Hi and Lois, the son asks, as they have gathered&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}