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Welcome to America's second favorite holiday, next only to Christmas, but we're a bit

conflicted about the main course.

88% of us will eat turkey today.

Unsurprisingly, 70% of us say it's not a proper Thanksgiving meal without turkey, but 65%

of us would like an alternative to turkey on the

table. Of course, we could join the 9% of Americans who will eat their Thanksgiving meal at a restaurant.

Then we could order whatever the restaurant serves. If you have a spare $150,000, you could

celebrate the world's most expensive Thanksgiving dinner at New York City's

old homestead steakhouse. Poultry aside, here's an important statistic. While the holidays are

filled with shopping and commercials for more shopping, 88% of us say we are thankful for family today.

Only 32% say they are thankful for wealth. This Thanksgiving week,

we're exploring the biblical commands to give thanks in all circumstances, as First Thessalonians

518 says, and to always give thanks to God the Father for everything, as Ephesians 520 says.

As we have noted, God calls us to give thanks in and for all that we experience.

In hard places, this is hard to do.

We can pretend that all is well, but God sees our hearts.

We can claim that things will inevitably get better,

but biblical examples of innocent suffering prove that it's not necessarily so. On Tuesday,

we discussed ways to trust that God will redeem our present challenges. Yesterday, we noted the

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