November is a month when we celebrate Thanksgiving. It is a national holiday, but I think for us as believers in Jesus Christ, it also needs to be a spiritual celebration. There are many things for which to give thanks—even when things don’t go as well as we would like them to go. We may have an illness, our bodies may be changing in ways other than what we would prefer, but if we are alive, we have something for which to be grateful. We may need to have an “attitude adjustment” as we’ve talked about in our study of Philippians chapter 4, but we can do that, and we can chose joy, we can learn to be content no matter what the circumstances.
I know, it’s easier said than done, especially when present circumstances are dark for whatever reason.