Thanksgiving is not just an annual event. It is, rather, an everyday attitude. This year in the midst of the pandemic families are being encouraged to forgo meeting in person to celebrate Thanksgiving. This is difficult for all of us who love family being together. We are more fortunate than previous generation in that we have ways to be in contact electronically that those generations could hardly even imagine. Because of face time I can see my grandchildren in Colorado. With Zoom I can see my grandchildren in Florida. I can reach my brother in South Dakota by phone and text. Would I like to give them a real hug? Of course I would, but we are still connected. These resources are available to our family every day for which I am grateful. I will admit; however that those calls seem even more special on the Thanksgiving holiday. We need special times like thanksgiving to remind us of important things like being thankful every day, of valuing our families every day, of enjoying our friendships every day. We thank God every day in our prayers, but every seventh day we are reminded in special ways of the range of God’s blessings. Every Thanksgiving, every Christmas, every New Years, every Easter, we remember our own story of God’s abundant blessings. We remember our congregation’s story of God’s abundant blessings, We remember the stories of our faith filled with God’s blessing from Genesis even up to the present moment. There will in the future be other in person and hug filled holidays, but even now in the midst of the current restrictions we know that we are the recipients of God’s abundant blessings.