GOOD SON-DAY!!!

FAREWELL TO FALL

 


LEVEL UP YOUR THANKSGIVING

Before I get started, for all you football fans out there. You absolutely must see a game this week on Skycast, on a big screen, and on your top surround sound.  It’s like being in a bleacher seat next to the band and behind the quarterback.  It’s like a virtual party.  Saturday night, I watched the #5 Tennessee Volunteers vs. the South Carolina Gamecocks.  The sounds from the stadium were way more entertaining than listening to the traditional telecast announcers spewing their opinions and statistics.

Oh, Curtis, sorry about your Volunteers.  Back in the day . . . ummm 30 days ago, they were the American dream and ranked #1.  I suspect after this game they’ll drop to #15 and no chance of getting into the national semi-final games. My prediction for the final four, Georgia Bulldogs, The Ohio State Buckeyes, Texas Christian University Horned Frogs, and the University of Southern California Trojans.

With Thanksgiving week starting today, I will encourage you to acknowledge your maker first and your love ones second.  Don’t do a generic thanks, give them a gem by calling out a specific action they have done for you. Then watch God gleam in your life and your love one glow with a smile. 

This kind of thanksgiving is a first fruit offering that is well received by all. Take some time to recall, you have four days to do this exercise of love.

Now, I digress-------where is saying grace at the dinner table found in the Bible?  Here is one of multiple examples (never neglect it, even in a public setting------be proud to do so. Otherwise, this passage may apply Luke 9:26, Whoever is ashamed of Me and my words, I will be ashamed of them when I come in my glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Acts 27:33-36, Saying Grace in Public

33 Just before dawn Paul urged them all to eat. “For the last fourteen days,” he said, “you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food—you haven’t eaten anything. 34 Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head.” 35 After he said this, he took some bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat. 36 They were all encouraged and ate some food themselves.

I will keep this short and end by saying I appreciate my family and I thank God for YOU. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

P.S. near the end of Wakanda Forever, Namor utter his 83-year-old catch phrase after he has vanquished his enemy, “Imperious Rex”, Latin for “Empire King”.

Here is another catch phrase, grander than the previous, “Iesus, Caeli et Terrae Rex”, Latin for “Jesus, King of Heaven and Earth”.

SONG OF THE WEEK.

Note – Jo and I will be highlighting 2023 Grammy nominated songs over the next few weeks.

“Get Up”, 2022, Tye Tribbett. Lyrics in song. 

 


 

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