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The Heidi St. John Podcast

Remembering Thanksgiving: A Season Of Reflection

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.93.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Join me today as we talk about the importance of remembering Thanksgiving. I'll also be answering listener-submitted questions on the show. SHOW NOTES



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0:00.0

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0:31.0

Well, welcome to today's podcast. This is Heidi St. John and you have found me at my little corner of the Internet.

0:38.0

This is the Off the Bench podcast. Today, I'm going to answer some questions from listeners and spend a little bit of time reflecting on why it's so important that we don't forget about Thanksgiving.

0:47.0

Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

0:49.5

Well, I'm glad you guys are taking some time out of your busy days to spend a little bit of time with me. I got a letter the other day from a mom who said that the only time that she ever gets to hear my podcast is when she's in the shower.

1:10.0

And so she thank me for being her constant companion and making sure she gets her shower every day. I was like, you know what? Listen, whatever it takes. Okay, I'm really just thrilled that you guys are listening to the show.

1:22.0

And we're watching it just climb in the ratings, which is a lot of fun. I think people are looking for truth in the culture right now. And we need to have a dose of truth, a dose of encouragement.

1:34.0

And we need to look to what God's going to do in the days and months ahead. And I think that God is at work. I'm not discouraged. People keep asking me if I'm discouraged. I'm not discouraged.

1:46.0

I'm going to answer a couple of questions with regard to that today from listeners. But we're coming into a season on the calendar right now. Not necessarily politically.

1:57.0

But we're coming into a season, certainly on the calendar right now that lends itself to reflection and to why we why it's so important that we remember that we have a lot to be thankful for.

2:14.0

And Thanksgiving is wonderful. It's all of the wonderful warm fuzzy feelings of the holidays without the stress of gift giving, which I think is a win.

2:22.0

And I think it a chance to remember Thanksgiving's from long ago, otherwise known as wait for it children actually talking with grown ups. It's all the wonderful food.

2:32.0

All the cousins all the family neighbors coming into our homes. It's game night. It's reading books together. And it's baked.

2:42.0

Pies and slow cooked apple cider. At least in our house, the Christmas music is already playing in. I know to some of you that's sacrilege, but in my house, my husband actually starts before even I do, but we have had such a stressful year like a lot of you have had.

2:57.0

That we've been playing Christmas music for weeks and it's not unusual to come into my house in the middle of the day and see a fire roaring in the fireplace and smell.

3:05.0

You know, the faint smoke in the air and your Christmas music, there's something peaceful about it. I think I told you guys I'm writing a study for December.

3:16.0

And it's called peace be still. And I'm going to be taking you guys on just a little bit of a journey on what it means to have the peace of God, the peace that passes understanding the peace it's not dependent on your circumstances.

3:31.0

True peace is a gift of the spirit has nothing to do with how well off you are financially it has nothing to do with whether or not.

3:40.0

Everything is going well politically or even in your marriage.

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