Thanksgiving Day 2024

My inbox is overflowing with articles about thanksgiving from the resources I view daily. One that stood out and captured my attention asked this question: “Could it be that no one receives the peace of God without giving thanks to God?” It went on, “Is thankfulness really but the deep, contented breath of peacefulness?”

And what of thankfulness? The book of Leviticus adds a special dimension to thankfulness in this way:

“There were to be ten offerings of bread in every thank offering of the Israelites. The first were like crackers. The second like wafers. These were known for their thinness. This was the order of thanks. The thanks began for the thin things, the wafer things that almost weren’t, and the way the people of God gave thanks was first to give thanks for even the meager and unlikely.

“Then it came, thanks for the leavened bread.”

Ten offerings, beginning with the most meager then ascending to the most valued.

May our thanksgiving today and every day—from the smallest thought to the most exalted praise, and from the darkest moment to the brightest joy—bring us the peace of God.

(Source: Faith Gateway, article by Ann Voskamp)

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