Thanksgiving and Giving Thanks for Essential Daily Life Issues

Firstly, if you are alive and reading this then the first thing is to thank God: Jesus that you are alive. This is not just a cliché or vain remark. If you do believe in God and Creation, you should have greater essential reason to do so. But you do not have to be religious to do so. It just makes perfect rational sense. Giving thanks for life is just as essential as the breath we breathe and water we drink each day. This sounds simplistic and basic, but is very true to every individual life. So first, we must give thanks for life even if we are poor, unemployed, dislocated, distressed and have other unfortunate issues of daily life experiences that we may be living through. As we reflect on Thanksgiving 2011 let us remember this point.

The next thing is to give thanks for help, assistance or support. Children/kids life is the perfect example of this point. They, especially toddlers, need their parents help everyday to survive and protect them from the harsh realities of daily life events. But adults too need to give thanks for help. Many are unemployed in the United States. However, by some means or another, they are able to access and receive needed help or support. We all need help in our lives - no matter how great our lives seem to be at the moment. Humane support can never be taken for granted. And so expressing gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation that we can never overlook in our daily lives.

God health and wellness are critical to our survival. Unfortunately, it may be true (or has some substance) that a sick person cannot be happy. While we are always sorry for the sick person, if the person is not bed-sick or confined to permanent bed-care with a very serious illness, then he/she has may just have good reasons to rejoice - even while they are not too well. Sickness is very painful. I saw that first hand from my very close relative before she passed away last year February. But even though she was confined to a wheel chair and bed because of her illness, she still took the time to be thankful to God. Not all can do that because of the severity of the illness they may be experiencing. However, many of us are enjoying great health and may have taken that for granted. We often spoil the good health intentionally with the wrong kind of substance and food we enjoy each day. Some of us eat according to affordability while others do this on the basis of desire that stems from the affordability that prevails in their lives. Nevertheless, to give thanks for our good health or wellness is very critical in our lives. The good health or wellness can dramatically change in just hours and a day.

Freedom in life is essential. We are a Nation of people (in the United States) who really love to say and do whatever we love, all day long, everyday. However, not many have ever taken the time to really reflect on this and give thanks. We may just take it for granted that it is a part of our Constitutional Right to just have freedom and more freedom at our personal disposal. But freedom came with a price paid by others before us and even by some who continue to work day and night so we can have and maintain this essential element in our daily lives. So pause and remember to give thanks for freedom.

The United States of America is famous for creating opportunities for almost everyone - but certainly for many people. So why not give thanks for the opportunities available. There are so many small business and individuals who are operating their own extra income opportunity or business online by way of the internet or by the traditional physical location somewhere in the country and overseas as well. So we can see the logic of giving thanks for this opportunity atmosphere that we are living in today. Not everyone will take-up a challenge and an offered opportunity to do what they want because of diverse personal, religious, social or legal reasons. But the opportunities still exist and we can give thanks for that.

Give thanks for the knowledge, science and inventions in our society that make our daily lives easier and better. For example, I wear eye glasses and I cannot imagine my life without this very necessary and useful invention. Thank God for science and those who take the time to create great tools that are needed for our daily life and living. Thanks for modern transportation, technology such as the mobile/cell phone, personal computers, the medical equipments that our medical communities use each day to help save lives. And the list goes on. So think about this and give thanks. So many people love sports, movie and entertainment events so they can give thanks for the science or invention that goes into making this a part of their daily lives. I cannot think of anyone who would like to live in the thousands of years ago (some say millions of years ago) atmosphere when we did not have modern bathroom facilities. I believe I could never live like they did in the past. My family and I really appreciate our bathroom amenities. Therefore, you can see the point about giving thanks in this regard.

In ending, there are many more points, issues and ways to give thanks apart from those mentioned above. But I do believe the above are critical and l essential to all humans across the globe and especially to us in the United States as we give thanks this Thanksgiving in November 2011. Life, health, help, freedom, opportunity and science are really important to all of us. So reflect and give thanks each day. Some of us may prefer one or two more than the others. But they are all worthy of being thankful about in our daily lives.