How far have we come when it comes to the holidays?
Posted by The Skyliner on December 2nd, 2009Jessicah Peters
Staff Writer
As the holidays approach, so many people are concerned only about themselves. Thanksgiving has become a holiday where you stuff yourself until you are too fat to do anything, and ladies are preparing to rip each others’ eyes out the next day to get Christmas presents.
Selfishness defined is looking after one’s own desires. It seems as if holiday events bring out the worst in people. Family members cut in line to get the first piece of turkey and forget what Thanksgiving is all about because of their own desires.
Thanksgiving began in 1692 as the Plymouth colonists and Indians gathered to give thanks for the bounty of crops. Now it seems Thanksgiving is a commercialized day of gluttony. How can we be thankful and get rid of our selfishness? Psalm 107:1 says, “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.”
My opinion concerning Thanksgiving is that it is a special day that we should give to God. He does so much for us throughout the year; therefore, we should give thanks for our health, family and blessings.
If people think it is too hard to give thanks on a national day of thanks, how can they be thankful any other day? We can consume our stomachs full of food, but cannot thank the God that provided all that food. We push and shove through stores to buy the best Christmas present, but cannot remember why we celebrate Christmas. We might say what we are thankful for, but we cannot seem to remember to thank God. God is someone to be thankful for. He created you, the food you eat and the people that prepared it.
As for me, I am giving thanks for the many blessings he has given me. I recently received a job and found out that I can receive another scholarship. And I have people who love me and food to eat. For this Thanksgiving I had many things to be thankful for, but most of all I am thankful for a God who saved me and has blessed me.
“In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus,” I Thessalonians 5:18 says.
Tags: Fall 2009, Vol. 109 - Issue 11