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I love Thanksgiving Day. It’s a great day of family, friends, food and football. And oh, yes…the Dallas Cowboys. But I digress.

Sometimes it’s hard to be thankful when everything isn’t going your way. Just like you might say, my life’s not perfect either. Not everything has “worked out” the way I dreamed it would. Even recently, my wife, Jenny and I have had some bad news come my way concerning the adoption process we’ve been in for almost 3 years. It’s been genuinely hard to deal with.

But I have more to be thankful for than to be depressed about. Sometimes I emotionally want to choose to be a “glass half-empty” person but I believe that the blessings of God demands that we choose to be a “glass half-full” person.

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I enjoy coming home after church on Sunday’s to relax and watch a little football. But today was another boring day with only the Broncos on TV. (Sorry, I am and forever will be a Cowboys fan ’till death do I part!’) As I flipped through other channels to find something better to watch, I stumbled upon a live concert venue. It was filmed in England in front of over 100,000 people with dozens of great bands taking the stage.

The band on stage was the Goo-Goo Dolls performing the song “Iris”. Even though it was the middle of the song, I was immediately drawn in by the open, power chords and the electric spirit of the crowd singing their hearts out. The people were not being entertained, they were having an experience.

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