Thanksgiving Prayer

Thanksgiving Day celebrations with family and friends.

Thanksgiving Prayer Heavenly Father,
on Thanksgiving Day We bow our hearts to You and pray.

We give You thanks for all You've done Especially for the gift of Jesus, Your Son.

For beauty in nature, Your glory we see For joy and health, friends and family, For daily provision, Your mercy and care These are the blessings You graciously share.

So today we offer this response of praise With a promise to follow You all of our days.



                     --Mary Fairchild

Dead or alive?

It is getting cold here! Which is not something I'm really excited about, cold weather is not my thing. Luckily, Texas doesn't have super, super cold Winters, so it's not so terrible. One thing I like about Winter is the trees. After all they've lost all their leaves, and look so bare and dead-like. They are still alive! Beneath the bark and down in the earth they are just as alive as ever, yet from what we can see they are dead. That's like how people see other people compared to how God sees people. We might see someone and think they are a terrible person, that they aren't worth it, that they are spiritually dead, to far gone to be saved, all because they look or act a certain way. We are so quick to judge other people that we don't even stop and look at ourselves! What do we look like to other people? Do we look dead too?

Comet ISON!

Comet ISON Brightens. Late last week Comet ISON began to wake up and now shines ten times brighter than it did just a week earlier. At magnitude 5.5 it has finally reached naked-eye levels from dark locations, according to observers around the world. (The lower the magnitude number, the brighter the object.) Even so, watching the phenomenon with binoculars and telescopes is the best way to witness this celestial body.
The sudden brightening is due most likely to vaporization of surface ice, leaving the comet sporting multiple tails— with the longest stretching some five million miles (eight million kilometers) out into space. That’s equal to more than 21 times the distance between Earth and the moon.
What will ISON do next is anyone’s guess, but all this activity makes it worth watching as it approaches its close encounter with the sun on November 28.
Look for the comet near the bright star Spica low in the southeast about an hour before your local sunrise. ISON is now visible from both Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Sources: National Geographic

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