Here are a few simple suggestions that can help. First, open your eyes. Those who are hurting or lonely are there, often right in front of us, but we can be too busy doing Christmas that we do not even see them.
“Thanksgiving is more about WHOM we give thanks to than WHAT we give thanks for,” shares Adam Dooley, author and pastor of Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson, Tennessee.
“We need to learn to look beyond the headlines. We need to look for who is missing from the reports and what’s not being said. Many times, our own brothers and sisters in Christ will be found in that void.”