We broke away from Ephesians yesterday, but no fear, we will be back there in January. We have turned our focus for the next month to the season we are in now. We kicked it off yesterday, With Thanksgiving Phil. 4:4-8. Eddie gave us 4 keys to not just surviving this time of year but thriving. We talked about the importance of prayer and an attitude of gratitude. We looked at 1Peter 5:7 and Eddie pointed out that we think of cast as throwing. But biblically cast means to let it go. Some have burdens too heavy to throw but we can all let them go, drop them. It reminded me years ago how I realized that when we let something go to God, it doesn't just go out into the unknown. It goes to God. He picks it up. He deals with it. He handles it. We can trust Him because he cares for us. I love how Eddie stressed how important our thinking is. What we think determines how we feel and how we feel determines how we act. I've been practicing that a lot lately trying to be intentional in thinking about what is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and admirable.
We ended the day yesterday with our church family. We gathered for a great time over soup and sandwiches. We sat there around the table and shared the Lord's Supper which was one of the sweetest ones I remember. Then we turned our thoughts to share Christmas which we chose families to buy for this Christmas. We had a great crowd and instead of gorging ourselves on another huge thanksgiving meal and focusing on ourselves, it felt like a night all about others! I'm still feeling the overwhelming sweetness of it all this morning.
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