Repentance and change could make this your best Thanksgiving. When we repent and change we go through a series of stages of change. At first we are ignorant of God's expectations. Next we move to the contemplative stage where we begin to allow ourselves to think about things we've never thought about before. Then we begin to make preparations to change and last we begin to do the things that are necessary to maintain those changes.
Ignorance keeps many people from repentance and change.
The story of Paul on Mars Hill in Athens is a classic example of the power of ignorance. Ignorant hides our need of change. Then Paul proceeded to fill them in on some of the wonderful truths about the identity and nature of the one true Creator God. Their response was typical of human nature which responds in one of three ways to something new. We reject it out of hand, ponder it or we accept it.