Just days ago we congregated with other groups than this - perhaps extended families, perhaps with friends, perhaps simply with your own thoughts, and over the warfare of knife and fork and between helpings and kickoffs, some words of thanks were no doubt uttered. And it is my prayer that this Thanksgiving week has not only afforded you the concentrated chance to be about that, but has also served to form a habit of regular thanksgiving. But we are in another place this morning. I believe that Thanksgiving is still our theme, but our various blessings will not be on parade. And then, with the immensity of it all before us, no less than with turkey and the yams before us, give thanks.
Scripture says it in all manner of ways.
It is the story of the search and the anticipation. This is, as we have said, the season of Thanksgiving. Today is also the last Sunday of the Christian year. We began the year with Christ's birth and here end it with Christ's exaltation. First and last.