There’s nothing underrated about Thanksgiving – in fact, I think it’s one of our most important and necessary holidays. Look around you and see how awash in riches you and your neighbors are; I guarantee 70% of the world would trade places with us in a New York minute. So many of us – even those who would be considered “in poverty” have so much. There is food to eat, clean water to drink, a roof over their heads, and even for those on the street, air-conditioned places to go when it is hot and warm places to stay for a while when it gets cold. Too often we focus our attentions on what we or other folks do not have without realizing just how much we do have.

And, more than anything else, if you have your health you are wealthy indeed.

Today I give thanks to God for allowing me to live this little spec of life in the United States of America, a nation, even with our many faults, remains the greatest nation on earth. I’m grateful for the privilege of spending this day surrounded by loved ones and having family and friends who accept me for who and what I am and bring me great joy. I try to take as little as possible for granted and try to never forget that in the grand scheme of things, I’ve caught the gold ring. For the bounty of God’s creation we will have at our Thanksgiving table we will give thanks, indeed.

Happy Thanksgiving to all from the Goodbys and Goodboys Nation weblog!