Remarkable reasons to thank God this Thanksgiving!
The Place and Timing of Your Birth
- Thank God for your conception.
- Thank God for knitting you together in your mother’s womb.
- If you survived your mother’s pregnancy, thank God.
- If you survived your birth, thank God.
- If you were born in a free country, thank God.
- If you were born to parents who loved you and provided for you, thank God (and thank them).
- If you enjoyed growing up with siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents, thank God.
Life Before You Can Remember
- If someone changed your diapers, thank God.
- If someone woke up with you in the middle of the night to feed and hold you, thank God.
- If someone cared for you when you were sick, thank God.
- If someone read to you and played with you, thank God.
- If someone taught you how to crawl, walk and ride a bike, thank God.
Protection
- If you were ever almost severely hurt or killed, thank God.
- If you ever survived a car accident, thank God.
- If you were ever seriously sick and lived, thank God.
- If someone ever protected you from harm, thank God.
- If you’ve ever survived an earthquake, hurricane or other severe weather event, thank God.
- If you’ve ever been kept from an addiction, thank God.
- If you’ve ever overcome an addiction, thank God.
- Thank God for all the times he has protected you when you were unaware.
Health
- For diseases, disorders or cancers you’ve never had, thank God.
- For diseases, disorders or cancers you’ve had and overcome, thank God.
- If you’ve never needed an ambulance, thank God.
- If you’ve never had a broken bone, thank God.
- If you’ve never had a mental/emotional disorder, thank God.
- If you enjoy each of the five senses, thank God.
- If you can walk, run, jump and climb, thank God.
- For every automatic bodily process keeping you alive at this very moment, thank God.
- Estimate the number of days you’ve enjoyed a clean bill of health and thank God. (20 years = 7,300 days)
