A hazy fog was upon most of the area in eyeshot, this morning. Out of my back window, I saw the most beautiful sunrise. A sliver of sun shone through a peep hole that the clouds split for it. There was a pink and yellow and a tiny strip of red and then the brightness of the sun, in the middle. It was breathtaking. I thought of how much we have to be thankful for.
Many people enjoy the thankfulness of bounty all year round. This is America. We are so blessed that the poorest of us feast, far more frequently than we would like to admit. We are averse to the sin of discontentment that we live with. We complain about the weather and the food and the places we live in and only when our discontentment reaches the stench of making us look and feel bad do we confess it. God is so patient with us. We have so much to give God thanks for, in the best of times and in the worst of times.
Thank God for the blackbeans that will be our dinner tonight. Thank God for the preachers who study and give us direction from God for our lives. Thank God for the relationships of mother and husband and siblings and children and friends, who accent life with all their concerns. Thank God for caretakers, such as teachers and doctors and police, firefighters and governors, who concern themselves with protection and instruction and healing. Thank God for loves and neighbors who beautify the world around us and ask nothing in return but a greeting, every once in a while. Thank God for Blackbeans and rice. etc.
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