i’ll be honest with you all - i completely forgot about posting tonight until about 6pm. so here i am last minute hoping by the grace of god i will be able to come up with something good.

anything good.

anything at all?

currently, it has been at least a half hour, maybe longer where i have been aimlessly trying to put words together and i have nothing to show for it. i typed some and back spaced more, but nothing seems to be working. 47 posts, and 48 if you count this one, that i have completed. that is a lot of writing, a lot of topics, no wonder why i am stumped. my mind, however, is happy for the long weekend and thinking about thanksgiving i think about giving thanks. a pretty typical thing to do this time of the year, but hear me out on this one! i promise there is more to it.

every thanksgiving we think and share what we are thankful for which i love don’t get me wrong, but that is the easy part. i am thankful for a lot, but how do i show my thanks? showing our thanks for something or someone is a lot harder and easily forgotten. being thankful and grateful are beautiful things, of course, but let us all try to take it one more step farther by putting our thankfulness into action.

this past sunday at mass our priest shared a story about three different people who witnessed a car accident during the homily. in the story a knight of columbus passes the accident and due to the icy road condition decides to pray instead. a father also drives by but on the other side of the road and noticing the heavy downpour decides to say a prayer. a third person, a teenager, drives by, stops, helps the person out of their car, gives them the jacket they were wearing to stay warm and dry, calls 911, and reassures them they will be okay until help comes.

similar to this past sunday’s mass where father discussed putting prayer into action, so is true when it comes to thankfulness. why? because we are called for more. called to not only be good, but to do good. called to take action and share in the love he brings. called to be his hands and feet. so while both thankfulness, gratitude, and prayer are beautiful and necessary things please do not forget to do something about it.

what are some ways you can put your thankfulness, gratitude, and prayer into action this week? Ponder this for a bit and then i encourage you to do at least one of them. happy thanksgiving you beautiful people you.

“then the king will say to those on his right, ‘come, you who are blessed by my father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. for i was hungry and you gave me something to eat, i was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, i was a stranger and you invited me in, i needed clothes and you clothed me, i was sick and you looked after me, i was in prison and you came to visit me.” “then the righteous will answer him, ‘lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? when did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?” when did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’“the king will reply, ‘truly i tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’“then he will say to those on his left, ‘depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. for i was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, i was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, i was a stranger and you did not invite me in, i needed clothes and you did not clothe me, i was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’“they also will answer, ‘lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “he will reply, ‘truly i tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ - matthew 25:34-45