{"id":8657,"date":"2012-11-22T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T03:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativeyouthideas.com\/resources\/?p=8657"},"modified":"2012-11-25T21:10:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T13:10:47","slug":"in-all-things-be-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.creativeyouthideas.com\/resources\/announcements\/in-all-things-be-thankful\/","title":{"rendered":"In All Things, Be Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back during the dark days of 1929, a group of ministers in the Northeast, all graduates of the Boston School of Theology, gathered to discuss how they should conduct their Thanksgiving Sunday services. Things were about as bad as they could get, with no sign of relief. The bread lines were depressingly long, the stock market had plummeted, and the term Great Depression seemed an apt description for the mood of the country. The ministers thought they should only lightly touch upon the subject Thanksgiving in deference to the human misery all about them. After all, there was little to be thankful for.<\/p>\n

But it was Dr. William L. Stiger, pastor of a large congregation in the city that rallied the group. This was not the time, he suggested, to give mere passing mention to Thanksgiving, just the opposite. This was the time for the nation to get matters in perspective and thank God for blessings always present, but perhaps suppressed due to intense hardship.<\/p>\n

I suggest to you the ministers struck upon something. The most intense moments of thankfulness are not found in times of plenty, but when difficulties abound. Think of the Pilgrims that first Thanksgiving. Half\u00a0their number dead, men without a country, but still there was thanksgiving to God. Their gratitude was not for something but in something. It was that same sense of gratitude that lead Abraham Lincoln to formally establish the first Thanksgiving Day in the midst of national civil war, when the butcher’s list of casualties seemed to have no end and the very nation struggled for survival.<\/p>\n

Perhaps in your own life, right now, intense hardship. You are experiencing your own personal Great Depression.<\/p>\n

In all things, Be Thankful!<\/p>\n

1 Thessalonians 5:18
\n“give thanks in all circumstances;\u00a0for this is God\u2019s will for you in Christ Jesus.”<\/h3>\n

Source: The full text of the sermon is available at\u00a0www.eSermons.com<\/a>.\u00a0Sign-up today at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.esermons.com\/signup<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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