Hey our friend
We are getting ready for a wonderful 
Thanksgiving meal this week at our house. It will be a wonderful time. We probably have to get an extra table to fit everyone.
Our last week was great as well. We were able to honor our students that helped us this fall in North beach by cooking a lunch for them. It was a wonderful time. Please keep them in your Prayers since they have only 2more weeks left till they leave for Outreach.
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Thanks-Giving
The week of amazing food and fellowship is back, its thanksgiving again. When you look at the word thanksgiving you see actually 2 words. Thanks and Giving.
When we look back at how thanksgiving started we see something interesting it was always about giving. When the first pilgrims came the Native Americans gave them and taught them skills on how to fish and grow corn. Out of that the Pilgrims had a great harvest and were able to survive. Out of thankfulness they invited the Native American tribe to celebrate with them the harvest they had that year. So it created this cycle of thankfulness out of giving.
But it is important to remember that the giving always came out of gratefulness. So now let’s see how that translates into our relationship with God. God has freely given everything for us and hopefully we are thankful for it. So if we give back to him in any measure (work, money etc.) we should always do it out of that thankful heart. We should never do it out of obligation or a rule since that would defeat the purpose of thankfulness. So when you give your 10th it should actually reflect your thankfulness to the father and not out of the fact of performing for his love. My friend Claude said this:
Don’t do things for love, but do them out of love.
And if you think about that is true for giving as well. Don’t give because you have to, but give because you want to and give out of a thankful heart.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving week.
Markus and Jen