OK in all fairness, Thanksgiving is Thursday and schools will still be closed, turkeys will still be roasted but I am sad that the country at large transitioned to Christmas November 1st! Now Advent has already started and I helped decorate the church for the season more than a week ago, and I know that Thanksgiving is not a church holiday. But we are not running right through Thanksgiving because their is a renewed passion and awareness of Christ's birth, we're doing so because the economy is bad and retailers want as much time as possible to sell Christmas!! Thanksgiving is a perfectly good holiday, it encourages coming together with family and friends and saying "Thank you" to each other and I think in a lot of homes to God, this is a good thing, but other than at the grocery store there is no way to commercialize it. I've felt for years that the malls and stores were getting closer and closer to just ignoring Thanksgiving but this year they really did. Feel free to rebut, I'd love to be convinced that this isn't basically bad news but right now I'm just not feeling it!
