Here we are on the day after Thanksgiving. The scales have reported my personal loss which is actually a physical net gain. The Dallas Cowboys have done it again and the stores and malls have provided a call for all to participate liberally in the Black Friday shopping extravaganza. This is Americana. These are expressions and experiences that exude the American lifestyle.
However, the half-life of wealth and fashion is like a parasite on the body of America. But we must remember, beneath the beauty of our skin is the bare skull.
The banalities of our contemporary celebrity culture have produced a morality code that remains even after the religion that produced it is rejected, and is like a perfume that lingers in an empty bottle. A hint of a scent, a whiff of an odor, a trace of something promising but with no body and no real substance.
I will give thanks to the Lord of all creation. I will rejoice in the King of the universe. I will trust in the One who is sovereign, and I will submit to the One who has dominion.
Thomas Wolf could not comprehend what he said when he wrote- “To lose the earth you know for greater knowing, to lose the life you have for greater life, to leave the friends you loved for greater loving, to find the land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
We await the coming and crowning of King Jesus. Until that day let us live this day with thanksgiving.
Serving Him with you Until He comes for us. Fred | 
