Thanksgiving Discipline

One of the people the elders of HPC interviewed this past Sunday is an active clogger, I mean BLOGGER, known to the world as Tulip Girl. We are so grateful to have her.

Tulip Girl has taken it upon herself to give daily thanks to God on her blog. Every day, she posts another list of four or five things for which she is grateful. I encourage you to visit her blog and keep up with her thanksgiving.

But my desire is not simply that you can vicariously participate in thanksgiving through her meditations. I encourage you to visit for two reasons:

1. That you can be encouraged to look around and see God’s hand in the every day. She is giving us a great model for this.

2. That this might be something we would consider taking up ourselves.

On Thanksgiving day itself we are in the habit of having every family member and guest write on at least three small pieces of paper something for which he or she is grateful. We share them all together after we have enjoyed our meal. It is a great thing.

But what if we trained ourselves to think of three things every day for which we could give thanks? We don’t have to do it on a blog to realize what a helpful thing that would be.

Thanks for the encouragement, Tulip Girl!

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Odd footnote: I use a utility on my Mac called TextExpander. It allows me set up some shorthand for commonly used expressions. For example, if I type ‘rr’ it automatically expands this to ‘Randy’, no matter what program I’m in at the time. ‘ddate’ produces the current date; ‘ttime’ the current time. And so forth. It’s oddly helpful.

In composing this post, I wanted to abbreviate ‘Tulip Girl’ as ‘TG’, but I could not without a great deal of effort.

Why?

Because that particular letter combination is already set up to expand – to ‘Thanksgiving’.