{"id":33545,"date":"2022-09-10T20:53:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/being-thankful-for-our-blessings\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:53:08","slug":"being-thankful-for-our-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/being-thankful-for-our-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Thankful for Our Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s that time of year&mdash;when we think of turkey and dressing (hold the cranberry sauce, please), an afternoon of football and&mdash;oops, almost forgot&mdash;being thankful.<\/p>\n<p>In the crazy environment in which we live today, it&rsquo;s easy to forget about being thankful. Schedules are hectic, bills are due, demands are growing&mdash;it&rsquo;s easy to be consumed with the pace and the pressure that surrounds us.<\/p>\n<p>However, for a moment, pause and think about thankfulness. I am thankful to have been blessed with a loving wife, who puts up with me even when I don&rsquo;t deserve it; two teenage sons, who still claim me even when I embarrass them; and a dog who thinks I&rsquo;m a hero. (I won&rsquo;t mention the cat, who considers himself superior to every living soul in the house.) Most of all, I&rsquo;ve been blessed with God&rsquo;s grace, with a Lord who loves me despite my sin and who resides within me although I am so, so unworthy.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? Got anything to be thankful for today?<br \/> Blessings!<br \/> Michael Duduit<br \/> MDuduit@SalemPublishing.com<br \/> www.MichaelDuduit.com<br \/> Follow on Twitter @MichaelDuduit<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/being-thankful-for-our-blessings\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s that time of year&mdash;when we think of turkey and dressing (hold the cranberry sauce, please), an afternoon of football and&mdash;oops, almost forgot&mdash;being thankful. In the crazy environment in which we live today, it&rsquo;s easy to forget about being thankful. Schedules are hectic, bills are due, demands are growing&mdash;it&rsquo;s easy to be consumed with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/being-thankful-for-our-blessings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Being Thankful for Our Blessings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}