On Thanksgiving

I just got home from DEC's "thanksgiving eve" service.
They rearranged all the chairs in the sanctuary so they all faced inwardly, and then they passed a mic around the room for people to give a short story of what they're thankful for and why.
At the end, the worship pastor lead communion, and he said something that stuck with me:

"Thanksgiving is like the one holiday that America hasn't caught on to yet. Just a day of worship."

And if you think about it, it's entirely true.
The most obvious example is that thanksgiving is completely left out of everyone's decoration closet- stores jump from Halloween to Christmas on November 1st.
Also strikingly absent is that it doesn't have its own "season".
there's a "Christmas Season", an "Easter Season", a "Veterans Day" season...
but no "thanksgiving season".
Thanksgiving has, wonderfully, been allowed to remain exactly what it is.
Possibly because it isn't a big catholic holiday that everyone celebrated in the 1700s (George Washington created our national holiday), we are given a few days off from work and school, and just allowed to gather as families and whatnot, and be thankful for what we have.

For Christians, that means thanking God and remembering that he made the ultimate sacrifice for our own lives.

I think that thanksgiving is my new favorite holiday.
Not that i ever had a favorite holiday before, but now i'll have an answer for when people ask me.
And this is because its the one time when everyone around our country, no matter their political convictions, economic situations, or religious beliefs, find it in themselves to, for one weekend, have the attitude that we're all supposed to carry every day.

That's why i like thanksgiving.
Because its one time where everyone in the world has the right idea.