I'm Hello, hello, my beautiful friends, and welcome back to another episode of Truth Talks with Tara, a show where you and I,

and sometimes our friends and guests, get to sit down and talk about what it means to not just like know

what God's word says about life and about him and about the people and the world, but also

about how to love God through that. And because of that, also live it. Because if you're anything

like me, when I grew up knowing Jesus, it was often really hard to know how to take the knowledge of God's

word and what he had to say and who he is and actually live that out practically. So that's my

hope for this show. So if you're new, that's my little spiel. I'm so grateful that you chose to plus

plus, oh my gosh, we are off to a good start. I'm going to keep that in. I am so glad that you chose to press play on today's episode all about fighting for gratitude,

fighting for thankfulness, especially when you don't feel like it.

I don't know how you feel about Thanksgiving, how you feel about even just the holidays

in this time of year in general.

I think social media and

traditions can often make it seem like Thanksgiving and Christmas are just ways or just avenues

that life just gets better and easier and happier and more lighthearted and more aesthetic and more

bearable. But I also know that's not the true case for a lot of

our lives, is that thankfulness is often a fight. And what I mean by that and what I have been

praying and dreaming up for this conversation just with you and I today is a reminder that often

thankfulness is a fight. We have to put on our boxing gloves. We have to get in the

ring with the enemy. We have to get in the ring with whatever is pummeling us in life and is

overwhelming and it's hard and is sad and it's difficult. And we have to be willing to go to bat

for the thankfulness, for the victory, for the hope that is ours in Jesus Christ.

And I say a fight because there are so many different enemies, not just the enemy of our soul, Satan, but just distractions from the world and circumstances that really want to take our eyes off of our hope, off of the real reasons that we do

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