If you’re thankful and you know it, Share your blessings

If you’re thankful

and you know it,

Share your blessings

by Ian Mascarenhas

   This isn’t the “Hokey Pokey.”  It is the season of Thanksgiving, and we Christians/Catholics should practice thanks-living.

   Do you appreciate what you have?  I heard a quote, “Happiness is not having what you want.  Rather it is wanting what you have.”

   Thanks-living is extending “Thanksgiving” into other parts of our lives.  When Jesus talks about “Feed the hungry, quench the thirsty, welcome strangers, etc.,” (in Matt. 25: 31-46) He calls and challenges us to care for others’ needs

   We do this by sharing our time, talents, efforts and resources.  Jesus added “when you do this for the least of my brothers (and sisters) you do it for me.”

   Giving thanks is important; living thankfully is an other-centered mindset (not self-centered).  Just Share it!