Today our WMF community will enjoy an American Thanksgiving here in Buenos Aires with turkey and all the traditional fixins'. We will throw in some good 'ol Argentina beef, so we don't forget where we are! (And because turkeys are too expensive to buy two.) The Forcattos will host a full house later today, nine adults and five kids. Off to play some Norteamericano futbol at the park in a little bit to get the day started.
Pulled out some of my favorite quotes on gratitude to get the day started. Happy Thanksgiving all!
“God is the giver. We are the thanks-givers…As gestures of gratitude unite us on a human level, they also unite us with the divine Giver. God offers gracious gifts, covenantal blessings, summarized in ‘You Belong.’ In response we say, ‘Thanks! I am grateful!’ We embrace God’s acceptance of us and in turn are embraced…Our social gestures of thanks, like a handshake or a letter, correspond to our religious gestures, like sacrifice, worship, obedience. Religious gestures are our way of saying to God, ‘Thank you for all the good things that come from you, the Source of all life.’”
“Gratitude as recognition, receptivity, and response is a basic attitude and action of the Christian life. We not only recognize and are aware of God’s gifts to us, but we also continually find ways of saying thanks to God in worship, prayer, and ‘whatever we say or do.’ Our aim is to live our whole life as a sacred gesture of thanksgiving, a deep bow of gratitude, solidifying our relationship with God.”
(Taken from Space for God by Don Postema)
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