Posted on 11/25/2010 5:04:41 PM PST by Jeff Head
To all my family and friends,
I wanted to write a little about what I am thankful for on this day of Thanksgiving.
On this Thanksgiving day, and indeed, on each day, I am thankful to and for God in Heaven and His tender mercies towards me and my family, and for His Son,, Jesus Christ, my dear Savior, and for His atonement and gospel which extends His tender mercy to all mankind if they will but come unto Him of their own free will.
I am thankful for my dear wife, and best friend, Gail and her Christ-like love for me and her ministrations to me through our 32 years of marriage and particularly through my current health crisis with cancer. She is my eternal sweetheart, for whom I have the deepest respect for and gratitude to for all she has taught me about life and love. I love her with all my heart and know that love comes from God in Heaven and is a reflection of His love and that of His Son.
I am thankful for each of our five children, Katie, Rachel, Becki, Jeff, and Jared and all they have taught me through our life as a family and continue to teach me in my middle years now. They have been an inspiration to me, through all the experiences, good and difficult, and I look back and am thankful for them all. I love them each so much...it is almost impossible to adequately express in words. I know our love can and will be eternal, and am grateful for that knowledge.
I am so thankful for my six grandchildren, Braedon, Kyra, Riley, Gracie, Kenna, Kason and for the two who will soon be born into this world making eight altogether. What a joy they are in life to me, and what an inspiration and goal they gave me to live for and, according to God's will, survive so I could spend more time with them.
I am thankful for my parents and the way the raised me to know of and turn to Christ...their love for me. Dad, there is not a day that goes by that I do not miss you. mom, we love you and will care for you with love, compassion, and tenderness until you are called home to be with your Savior and your eternal companion and husband. I am thankful for each of my brothers, Lee, greg, and Paul and all they have taught me. What a great family we have had, despite whatever difficulties. Lee and Paul and I also miss Greg, who was taken home, suffering from cancer himself over six years ago now. I miss his always friendly greeting when he saw me, "Well, hello, Jeffrey!" And I must add here, I am so thankful for my dear in laws, Ralph and Effie, who raised my dear wife Gail to be what she is today, the most precious blessing in my life next to my own relationship with God and His Son.
I am so eternally grateful to have been blessed with good friends, friends in times of need as the Lord promised me in a blessing early in my life. And He has kept that promise. Great Christian and patriotic souls, whose love for God and His Son, others, and life burn so strongly within them and who have exercised their love and faith on my behalf...and extended their help as the Lord saw fit when it was most needed. I could never express enough my thanks other than to pass it on in kind as I see others in need.
I am thankful for life, given by God and maintained by Him, for His purposes and that I can be in the company of my family and friends and perhaps have some influence on them for the good and particularly motivate them to come unto Christ and find rest in Him irrespective of the circumstances they face in life. His healing is powerful enough to provide peace, comfort and rest in any circumstance that we are called to pass through, even if the hardship itself is not removed.
I am thankful for the United states, this land of liberty, and my own liberty where I can worship God and keep company with my family as I see fit...and for the God-inspired constitutional Republic which maintains that liberty. I am thankful for all who have served this nation and its cause for liberty, with the moral constraint and foundation that goes with it that must be freely chosen by the people iof we are to keep it.
All those, including many of my own kin, including my father and uncles, who served and fought to defend it. I am thankful; that the people of this nation are awakening to the meaning of those fundamental moral principles, and from whence they derive...from that same God in Heaven who gives us all life...and that the people are now standing against the internal, liberal, socialistic forces that would fundamentally change the very basis of our nation and destroy its liberty. May we continue to do so.
God, family, life, liberty...and the principles and way of life that define and embrace them. May we all reverence them, always be thankful to God in Heaven for them, and stand in their defense in whatever circumstance we find ourselves in.
Happy Thanksgiving, one and all, and God's best blessings to you all!
FYI...God bless each of you this Thanksgiving Day!
Nice Jeff. Thanks for posting.
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!
You look wonderful, Jeff, and I’m so glad.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours and God keeping blessing you and yours.
Happy Thanksgiving Jeff and may the Force be with you.
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Thank you Jeff - and best Thanksgiving wishes to you and yours.
Happy Thanksgiving and God bless you and yours.
Thank you my FRiend. God has been good. I’m still progressing...slowly but surely. Taking more and more steps with no cane assistance, but not ready for prime time yet. Several months away. Am glad to be alive and walking at all.
Jeff, this has been quite a year for you, one you never would have imagined for yourself.
But God knew, and He brought you and Gail through it.
Your post reminds us that we all have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving Day 2010.
God,Family, friends, country, freedom, life—all gifts from Him who loves us so.
Your work on Earth is not finished yet, Jeff. God bless you and your family today and always.
Praise God and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. We are so glad to continute to hear of your recovery.
May you celebrate many more Thanksgivings with all those you love...
From the heart. You express what freedom and liberty are all about. May God bless and keep you and continue to give you strength. You are a great inspiration.
Happy Thanksgiving.
same to you Jeff... happy to see you are well again
Thank you for the ping!
You are a true inspiration and I’m thankful that we have men like you and women like your wife on our side.
Good bless you, Jeff, and thank you for being the kind of inspiration that all of us could learn from. You are truly a good Christian man. I noticed that you were specific about what you are thankful for. Rabbi Lapin mentioned this in one of his “Though Tools”. He said that the words “Thank you” are not found in the O.T. but the Torah makes it clear that God wants us to be specific about what we are thankful for and also what we pray for. You have much to be thankful for and I loved your “thanksgiving card” to your family and friends. May God be kind to you in His mercy and Grace.
God bless you and God bless America.
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