Although it is not one of Adonai’s appointed feasts or festivals, I am grateful for the Thanksgiving holiday.
In this crazy, mixed-up world, Thanksgiving is one holiday that has a rather pure intent: it reminds us of the importance of being grateful for what we have, rather than coveting what we lack. When it comes to secular holidays, there’s not many others like it.
Christmas: Aside from the fact that it’s not really Yeshua’s birthday, but a celebration co-opted by Christianity that originally celebrated the birth of the Roman god Mithras, Christmas is really the term life insurance of holiday; it’s all quite temporary, covering your needs for a time but with an expiration date well in mind. It’s also a gimme holiday; in this case, gimme presents.
Halloween: Gimme candy or I’ll egg your car or TP your house and trees. One of the worst gimmes holidays.
Easter: Gimme candy and colored eggs!
So many holidays are about filling our unfulfilled wants and desires. Thanks Adonai that in at least one secular holiday, our country is reminded to say, “Thank you.”
Even if some don’t know who they ought to be thanking.
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