You make a decision yourself how you will live your life.
At my house, Thanksgiving is the high point of the year. It is my favorite holiday. Christmas, with its emphasis on shopping, really is easily commercialized and has been commercialized to death.
Thanksgiving, though, is hard to commercialize. Its just a meal, your family, and a prayer. Don’t want to lose the culture war? Stand up at the head of your dinner table and give heartfelt thanks. Its important to do it, and its important for your family to see you do it.
Its easy to blame society and the culture when you yourself have given up. But it all falls back to you. You decide and you build the culture you want to live in, and build it at your house. There are plenty of people who have no place to be on Thanksgiving who will be glad to show up at your table if they know they are welcome, so always cook extra.
After reading all the comments,I think this one expressed it best.....Thanks marron
Well said!!