Where Did Thanksgiving Go?

        Dennis Hutchinson shared this idea with me so I thought I would steal it from him. Have you ever noticed how Walmart goes from selling trick-or-treat candy half price straight to Christmas decorations? By Nov.1st we hear Christmas songs playing in ToysRUs or Lifeway Christian Stores for that matter. Whatever happened to Thanksgiving? Now I understand the need for this in our economy - Christmas and Halloween have become the 1,2 punch in consumer holidays. Now don't get me wrong, I can't wait to start listening to my new Christmas music which came out October 26th. Afterall, "We Gather Together to Ask The Lord's Blessing" is the only Thanksgiving song I know .(although "Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart" and "I Will Enter His Gates With Thanksgiving in My Heart" will soon be 25 years old and thus enter the Hymnal) Also, celebrating the birth of Jesus is 10 months too late in coming in my estimation.
          But note what the Bible says in 2Timothy 3 ; ¹This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
 ²For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,...

      Could it possibly be that as a society, as God is increasingly forced out of the picture (like the above turkeys) we forget to be thankful to God and thus miss or skip a month of thankfulness? We even historically redefine Thanksgiving as the pilgrims (native Europeans) got together with the Native Americans and they gave thanks to the Native Americans for helping them learn how to survive. Didn't they get together for a day of thanks to God? The word "thankful" by Webster's definition - conscious of benefit received - implies that someone has given us something and we are grateful to them for these blessings bestowed on us. As we increasingly remove God from the picture in these last days, Thanksgiving basically becomes non -sensical as seen in this movie clip.
        Let's, as Christians, not race through to Christmas but see November as a month to be thankful to our God for his grace and mercy to us because after all according to Heb. 12:28 thankfulness is indicative  of someone on their way to Heaven ; "Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful..."
               Happy Thanksgiving