Are You Still Grateful on the Day After Thanksgiving?
And what about the other 364? Will you still be giving thanks?
It is 6:13 am on the day after Thanksgiving. I am not sitting around a festive table with friends. I am not eating turkey and pumpkin pie. I am not listening to 15 people, some of whom I have never met before, telling the rest of us why they are so grateful. I am just laying here in my pajamas, under the covers.
Pillow under my head, comforter up to my chinny chin chin, it is just me here on November 25th – a day no one circles on their calendar.
I can hear the sound of the furnace in the basement below and the sound of my own heart beating. I can see that it’s still dark outside. I know it is my choice whether or not I continue to lounge in my bed or make a pot of coffee.
It is easy to be grateful on the day of Thanksgiving. Of course it’s easy. Everywhere you turn people are reminding you to be grateful.
But what about the other 364 days of the year? What about November 25 and January 19? What about February 27, March 3 and that ridiculously hot day in August when your air conditioning is on the fritz? What about tax day? Are we grateful then?
Jesus may have died for our sins. Forty-six million turkeys may have died for…
