A Thanksgiving Suggestion

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.

--Cicero

For those of us who pray, may I humbly suggest that sometime between now and the turkey feast, we take pause to get on our knees and thank God.

But might we make this prayer a little different, perhaps, than our usual prayers.  Might we forgo our requests, our pleadings, our supplications this one time and instead simply just offer up only our thanks.

That we pray a Thanksgiving prayer where we ask the Lord for nothing, but instead spend this time exclusively on counting blessings with a grateful heart.

And to take our time when doing so.  Because if we truly wish to deliberately identify every blessing, every miracle which our God has bestowed, how much time is needed to do our acknowledgement and praise justice?

Five minutes?  Fifteen?  An hour?

And after the "amen", may we arise and feel more full and more satisfied than we did on any previous Thanksgiving occasion-- in the heart, not the belly!