November 25, 2006
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At this Thanksgiving season, I thought I would share the words of Bina T. Sarver, which are as follows:

When the summer’s drought was broken
Did you thank God for the rain?
When the crops were safely garnered
Did you thank Him for the grain?

When you watched the gorgeous colors
Over all our forest land
Did you thank God for the picture
From the Master Painter’s hand?

When you read of ragged children
Begging for a crust of bread,
Did you thank the Heavenly Father,
That your own were clothed and fed?

When death-dealing bombs are falling
And the war planes zoom afar,
Do you whisper, “Lord, I’m thankful
That our land is free from war”?

Have you counted all your blessings,
Tried to name them one by one,
Friends and health and work and shelter?
See, you’ve only just begun.

Blessings! Yes, we have so many,
We could never name them all;
Let’s lift our hearts in glad thanksgiving
For all blessings, great and small.

Here in Dunkerton we are so grateful this Thanksgiving season, as we have just concluded a nightly series of meetings in the Gospel Hall during which time a number of souls came to know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.

Russ Nesbit