Giving Thanks...for life

Today is the day where you gather around a big table, with a big ol' turkey, with your big ol' (or maybe not so big) family or friend and give thanks. It's one day of the year and for some of us maybe it's been a month of "giving thanks." Thanks and giving: they are not mutually exclusive. They ebb and flow together and I believe that the Lord intended it to be so. And at this very moment I humbled and ever so thankful that my mother gave me life. Thankful, I'm so thankful that God gave me to her and she thankful herself, she gave me life!

It's something that maybe I take for granted sometimes...or maybe all the time. My heart beats, I breathe in and out all the day long. But at one time...one moment in time I was just this idea (maybe not the greatest of ideas ;) ) in God's mind. There I was this idea and then at another moment in time there I was a life, a human life...a baby in the womb...growing and changing with every moment...a true miracle and blessing.

What spurred me to think upon these things is the following video (you'll have to click the link.) I don't mean to be political...that's not the point. The point is to see life....to SEE life....maybe differently than you had before...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y2KsU_dhwIou

Thank be to God, the giver of all life, the wanted and unwanted, for giving my mom the courage to give me life. ~amen

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