variations on giving thanks
The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew ! A happy Thanksgiving to you all. We’re awfully close to the tipping point, right before the holiday-season falls completely into the clutches of the advertising world. After tomorrow, from Black Friday until December 24, each day will be just one more excuse to get you to buy more stuff, accumulate more goods. So how about it? On these last minutes before the season of packed parking lots, another meal with the in-laws and overpriced gadgets; let us pause and just give thanks. That’s what it seems our lessons tonight are all about, right? Stop your worrying, and give thanks. The prophet Joel tells us not to fear, and instead to be glad and rejoice. Jesus in the Gospel, invites us to the consider the lilies of the field, how they neither sow nor reap, and yet God provides for them… So, go on then, stop worrying and be thankful. That’s the temptation tonight; to take this wonderful ev...