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Strength For Life

x “Qffcr untQ God thanksgiving^: and pay thy vows unto the Jiigh: And call upon me in die day of trouble I will deliver thee and thou sfcalt glorify me”. (Psalms 50114-15) J t

We should be glad we live in a country like our blessed America and should be equally thankful for those our forerathers ^ho saw fit; to proclaim a day during the fall •season wfitn we should give thanks. Pfo doubt they had the foresight to see our need for such a day. A day in which we would pause long enough to consider the wonderful Uessings\ of God Almighty.. At,, no other time of the year are there apt to be prayers said in most every* home than at die 'dinner taMe on*. Thanksgiving Day/ "

But there is a sad part to the story. For in most cases that will be about the only time during die year we vrif| be M to P«ty of diis feeling of thankfulness. The rest of the year we arc ought up in jhe whirl of mMcireia living fo the point that we forget completely ■die one who is the giver of the greatest of all blessings!. ' Being thankful is •not expressed so much in the words that are saidf/ around the Thanksgiving table as * it is in the life that we live. Thankfulness like so many other things, is a full rime job. 4 The psalmist says, “Offer unto “ God thanksgiving and pay the vows to die most high.”1 Not only are we to render thanks but wa <4re to pay our vows. What are they? Jesus said it best of all, “Thou \ shaft love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with aM thy soul, and with all thy mind, and wSK^sll- thy straight this » the first commandment. And the second is like unto it; Thou- shall % love thy neighbor as' thyaeUfi '

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