If you guys have been watching the Real Show or following Daniel Fusco Ministries for very long, then I can almost guarantee youâve heard me talking about my all-Italian family from New Jersey…theyâre crazy…and I love them!
And if you know anything about Italians, you know we love to eat!! So as you can imagine, Thanksgiving is a holiday we really enjoy because itâs another excuse…to eat! For many of us, there are few things more fun than getting together with family and friends and feasting.
But I sometimes think thereâs a big problem with Thanksgiving.
…Okay, maybe thatâs extreme, but hear me out.
With my family growing up, we always talked about what we were thankful for as we were eating together. But what was crazy was the next day we went straight back to complaining about everything again. And as we all know, the day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday, the worldâs most extreme example of complaining…You know the drill. Every year, you have all these people waiting in line, and they canât get the thing they wanted so they complain. And then online you see these videos of people beating each other up because they didnât get their Teddy Ruxpin – or whatever it is theyâre selling these days.
And really, what I say is the âproblemâ with Thanksgiving isnât a problem with the holiday…itâs a problem with our perspectives. You see, itâs a really unhealthy perspective we develop when we think we can take one evening and express thankfulness…and then go back to being ungrateful and unthankful every single day afterward.
If thatâs what weâre doing, weâre missing the point of what Thanksgiving is for. Â
Thankfulness should never be just a âmoment,â or a single evening meal. We all should be living lives of tremendous gratitude.
Iâm reminded of the Apostle Paulâs words in Colossians 3:17: âAnd whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.â
âDo it all…giving thanks.â  âThe fact youâre here right now is a tremendous gift.â Click To Tweet
Now, life is messy, and God doesnât expect us to give thanks for all things. It would be twisted of us to thank Him for the painful things that happen to us! But we do need to give thanks to God in all things…because even if everythingâs going wrong, the fact youâre here right now is a tremendous gift.
So this year, letâs seize this moment, this opportunity to express gratitude, and pay it forward into every day the rest of the year! Letâs start a movement of gratitude for the people in our lives, and the ways Godâs blessed us. I promise you this: once you make a habit of thankfulness…you wonât be able to stop. And it will totally transform the way you see everything in your life.
Happy Thanksgiving, you guys!Â