Thanksgiving: How will we let our gratitude to Christ mark the world for Christ?

Why gratitude? Is it to

neatly scrub away any inconviencing responsibility, as if gratitude can quietly get us all off some uncomfortable hook?

Ann Voskamp writes,

In a world of need, it’s too easy to think that static gratitude is our only responsibility — instead of feeling gratitude as the electric current empowering our ability to actually respond.

To actually do something. To actually walk, live, move, respond, go into this world as though our feet are kissing the grace of the ground under us and God over us, going as an embrace to those in need.

Gratitude is the demanding question mark in the grammar of your life – otherwise your life needs editing.

So you are grateful & —- ??

So you are grateful & — ?? What are you going to do?

So you are grateful & —?? How now will you live?

Thanksgiving that doesn’t become thanksliving isn’t thanksgiving. It’s thanksdead. It’s thanksnothing.

Who wants only a month of giving thanks for gifts, when you could have a life of being the gift; who wants only a holiday with a feast, when you could have a lifestyle that is a feast.

What if the question around holiday tables wasn’t – What are you so grateful for? But rather How are you changing the world because you are so grateful?

What if gratitude always meant a question mark — asking how will you let your gratitude to Christ mark the world for Christ?