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Sometimes I don’t pray for a while.
Not because I have nothing to be thankful for, but because I know God is very busy and many people these days are in need.
They may require his undivided attention.
But when I do pray, it is often for longer periods, like for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time, often while I am alone in my back yard looking up at the galaxy rotating overhead.
No sound, no distractions…just a fire, him and me, and billions of stars he provided to gently illuminate our intimate conversation.
What I thank him for may seem silly to some.
I thank God for the usual things, like good health, medicines that work, food in our cabinets, for useful skills to trade for a paycheck, and for people across the nation to be nicer to each other.
I give thanks for my children and friends, for our struggles that will become opportunities, and for making me do things I don’t want or even like to do, as those things improve me.
And I thank the Lord for allowing me to grow from the person I once was into what I am becoming, and for his grace and forgiveness to allow me to express this slightly better version of myself in front of my children and the love of my life.
Thanksgiving can be many things to us all, but is so powerful as an affirmation of simple truths about what is good and true in our world.
In plain words, on some still, peaceful night when it feels right for you, spend some time in simple thanksgiving with your Creator… spoken directly from your lips to him above.
Then pass that tradition on to your family.
He really loves to hear from us all.