“O magnify the Lord with me and let us magnify His
name together.”
Psalm 34:3
I am going to be both very predictable and very
seasonal today.
If you are reading this and thinking to yourself - I
wonder if he is going to speak on thankfulness, BINGO, you would win the prize.
But 2020 hardly seems like a year we can pick much to
be grateful and thankful for does it?
How can we be grateful with Covid-19 in our midst?
250K+ fellow Americans are dead.
We have learned new terms like social distancing and
contact tracing and had to put them into practice.
Everybody is telling us not to gather in large groups
even when that large group is just your extended family.
Thanksgiving gatherings are all but forbidden and who
knows what our Christmas traditions will be like this year.
2020 has also brought us a contentious national
presidential election that still is not decided and which has polarized
Americans of every stripe like never before.
Add into the mix now lawsuits in several states over
voting irregularities and it promises to be a bumpy ride between now and
inauguration day.
This year has brought us violent riots, protests, looting
and racial strife in cities near and far, the likes of which we have not seen
in decades.
Few have come away unscathed.
We had calls to defund the police on one side and
defend the police on the other. Rallies
for and rallies against.
In a society or culture that has been buffeted by so
many traumas recently it is easy, some would even say justifiable, that
gratitude would fall to the wayside.
Yet, with all of that recent history and a whole lot
more I am still here today to exhort us to maintain a grateful heart and a
thankful attitude in each of our personal lives.
Let’s look more closely at gratitude this week...
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