I have been reading Barbara Brown Taylor's book of sermons entitled Mixed Blessing. In it is a sermon she preached one Thanksgiving - about giving thanks for the good and the bad in life. Here is part of her conclusion:
Our challenge this Thanksgiving morning is to... learn to... say "thank you" [to God] for the whole mess, the things we welcome as well as the things we would risk our souls to escape...
God is God, and our lives are our lives, and we can love them or leave them, give thanks for them or whittle them away with regret. Our dare... is to embrace all that we have ever been and done and haul it up to lay upon the altar, and there to recognize our lives as... outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace. Every single occurrence in our lives is to be understood as an invitation to draw closer to God... and therefore worthy of praise and blessing and thanksgiving...
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