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thank full

Nov-27-2008

serenitysymbolI 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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