Any Day Is a Good Day for Thanksgiving

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Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. ~Catherine Pulsifier We had an early Thanksgiving dinner at our church today. We’ve been having this special time together as a church family for many years. My mother used to like to go with me to these special dinners. We used to have them in the evening, …

Jocie Brooke Here Taking a Thankfulness Survey

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November 9, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. It’s November and so Dad says that we all need to think about our blessings and reasons we have to be thankful. Sunday morning, he challenged everybody at church to think of a new reason to be thankful each day for the rest of the month. I could do that. …

“Gratitude is Happiness Doubled by Wonder”

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton  What’s your favorite holiday?  Some of you might say Christmas right off, but I’m pretty sure I hear others out there picking Thanksgiving. It such a wonderful day of family and food and blessings. No pressure to exchange gifts. …