ROYAL PARK PLACE Life Style
Chaplain’s Corner
We are at a stage of life where we can look back over the years and see the everlasting love of the Lord and his goodness. We remember the years under our parents’ care and how they brought good things into our lives. Family, church, education, friends, and so much more are reasons to express thanks. Living in our busy adult years offers many reasons to be thankful as well. Families, careers, church involvement, friends, and the resources we need to live our lives are wonderful things for which we can express our thanks. God’s enduring love continues into our senior years. He provides us with families to love us and to assist us, church families we have possibly spent decades with to support us in our journeys of faith, doctors to assist with our health, wonderful care facilities, and resources to help us be comfortable during this time of life. The apostle Paul also reminds us of when to give thanks in 1 Thessalonians 5:18: “give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” This is a great reminder that God is with us in every circumstance. Paul tells us that thank you is appropriate in both the delightful times and the times of struggle and sadness.
Thank You Did you speak or hear these words today? If your upbringing was like that of many families, you remember being taught by your parents to say thank you when you received a gift or when
someone did something for you. “What do you say?” was a common sentence in our family as we learned the art of being thankful. The phrase was a reminder to say the words, even if we did not feel like it or had just forgotten. As a grandparent, it has been a delight to see the grandchildren learning and acquiring the social graces of saying thank you. It is heartwarming after hearing the demands from toddlers as they say, give me, or I want, being finally softened by their version of thank you; tan you, tank you, and other delightful versions. My heart swells with joy when we now also receive thank-you cards for the gifts we have given. I am thankful for the parents who are showing their children how to express thanks and for the children who are emulating them! We are in the month of Thanksgiving, and it is proper for us to say “thank you” to our God who watches over us and blesses us in many ways. The bible tells us to do so in Psalm 136:1: “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever.”
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