Dear Faith Family,
Tomorrow, you'll likely be around a meal with friends, family, or both. Whether the meal is labored over in traditional preparations or arriving via APP, is part of a more extensive day of activities, or humble hospitality, there will be a moment around the table where you'll be encouraged to remember with gratitude the actions and relationships that brought about your living, here and now, testifying to the light in your life. In other words, tomorrow, you will be encouraged to witness to grace and encouraged by the witness of grace.
Some of our friends and family witnesses may not accredit the light of their life, the grace from which gratitude flows, to the Giver of grace, but my prayer is that you and I will.
My prayer is that we will recognize the "true light which enlightens everyone" (Jn 1:9) of the thanksgivings we hear tomorrow, seeing in them "the glory of the only Son from Father, full of [the] grace..." of God with us and God for us (Jn. 1:14). And, in seeing in our shared lives "the Life which is the light of humanity" (Jn. 1:5) we would speak with humble, bold gratitude the name through which "we have all received grace upon grace": Jesus Christ (Jn. 1:16-17). For, as we've been reminded lately,
...from him and through him and to him are all things.
To him be the glory forever. Amen.
(Romans11:36)
So today, amid all the other preparations for tomorrow, perhaps we could take a moment to prepare our hearts and minds for what we might see tomorrow around the table in our thanksgivings by remembering what we've received in,
the Word becoming flesh, dwelling among us...
from his fullness we have all received grace up grace...
grace and truth...through Jesus Christ
(John 1:14, 16-17)
I am giving thanks for His grace that is you and manifest through you. Love you, faith family! Happy THANKSGIVING!