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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Seven Things to Be Thankful For</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* for automatic dishwashers. They make it possible to get out of the kitchen before the family come in for their after-dinner snacks.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* for husbands who attack small repair jobs around the house. They usually make them big enough to call in professionals.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* for the bathtub -- the one place the family allows Mom some time to herself.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* for children who put away their things and clean up after themselves. They're such a joy you hate to see them go home to their own parents.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* for gardening. It's a relief to deal with dirt outside the house for a change.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* for teenagers. They give parents an opportunity to learn a second language.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">* for smoke alarms. They let you know when the turkey's done.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Have You Taken Inventory Lately?</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The renowned teacher and author Dr. David McLennon tells a story of his very first job in a small town general store. This was the day before mails and supermarket chains at least it was in his community. At age thirteen he was hired as a handy boy. He would sweep the flour, bag items for customers, put up stock. On one particular Saturday, he recalled, he heard the owner say to one of the clerks "It’s that time of the year again, it’s time to take inventory." Dr. McLennon wrote that this was a word that had not yet entered into his vocabulary. When an opportune moment arrived, he went up to the kindly older man and asked, Sir, what is an inventory? Patiently the owner explained that it was a time when you made a list of everything that you had -- from groceries on the shelves to wrapping paper and string. Still somewhat puzzled, the young McLennon then asked, Why?</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Well, responded the owner, it is easy to forget exactly how much you have each year. Every now and then you have to take an inventory just to see what all you have."</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">That little story, to me, pretty well sums up what Thanksgiving is all about. It is a time when each of us needs to ask ourselves the question: Have I taken inventory of my life lately? Have I made an effort to count all the things that I do have in life instead of complaining about the things that I don’t have. It is a good exercise especially when we are of a mind to brood or whine in self-pity. Have you taken inventory lately?</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">What I am suggesting here is not some shallow "count your blessings" platitude. But from time to time, in a genuine kind of a way, we need to sit down and do some talking to ourselves about all of the gifts and opportunities and challenges that God has given each one of us. Perhaps there is a deep underlying wisdom in the children's poem that says: "Count your blessings one by one, and you might be surprised what the Lord has done."</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">I will remind you of that wonderful Children's holiday classic "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas." It was released a few years ago as a movie starring Jim Carrey. You'll recall in the story how the Grinch enters all the homes by way of their chimneys disguised as Santa Clause. He takes all the presents and ornaments, the trees and stockings, and even their food down to the last morsel. He drags his loot up to his mountain and then looks down upon Whoville with a sinister grin. He is listening for the cries and wailings of the people to start as they wake up on Christmas morning to discover a Christmas lost. What he hears instead surprises him. Up from the town of the Whos comes a joyful Christmas carol. They are singing. "Why?" he asks. It is because, he learns, Christmas resides not in things but in the heart which is thankful. He co uld not steal their gratitude.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>
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