I wrote this post about Thanksgiving… about all we have to be thankful for… and I had lists of all the places and spaces where we need to humbly submit ourselves and give God thanks… where we need to recognize we\u2019re not in control… where we need to give credit to the power and presence that designed us, created us, and still empowers us today \u2014 thanking him for all the awesome things which he has so generously bestowed upon us.<\/p>\n
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We can be such an arrogant people. \u00a0I<\/em> can be arrogant! \u00a0We like to do so many things for ourselves… we think we\u2019re so smart… think we\u2019re so intelligent… think we have no need of any higher power.\u00a0 Geepers.\u00a0 I am learning.\u00a0 I hope we all are.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My encouragement today is thus simple:\u00a0 slow down.\u00a0 Pause.\u00a0 Quit filling up all the empty moments of our day with app\u2019s and applications and people and policy and effort and activity. \u00a0Quit investing in criticism. \u00a0Take time instead to be still… to rest… to think… to think of others… to give thanks.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My related \u201ca-ha\u201d is that we\u2019re typically too busy to give thanks; our busy-ness actually gets in the way. \u00a0We spend so much time doing<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 even doing good<\/em> things\u00a0\u2014 but all that doing<\/em> keeps us from giving thanks to someone bigger than ourselves.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So slow down.\u00a0 Give thanks. \u00a0Let’s be intentional.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Happy Thanksgiving… with an awareness of the incredible blessing God makes available to all…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joyfully,<\/p>\n AR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wrote this post about Thanksgiving… about all we have to be thankful for… and I had lists of all the places and spaces where we need to humbly submit ourselves and give God thanks… where we need to recognize we\u2019re not in control… where we need to give credit to the power and presence … <\/p>\n