Today, Christmas Day, should be every bit as much of a thanksgiving day as the Thanksgiving holiday that we celebrate.  So here are just some of the things I am thankful for today.

I am most thankful for a loving God who has given me all of the blessings listed below.

I am thankful for his Son, Jesus, and his sacrifice of a painful, shameful death on a cross so that I  might, by accepting him as my Savior, have everlasting life in heaven.

I am thankful for my wonderful husband, a loving, kind, righteous man whom I do not deserve.

I am thankful for  my  stepchildren and my grandchildren and great grandchildren. They are each unique and each deserving of my  love.

I am thankful for our church family, a wonderful group of people, and for all my friends, acquaintances and former students from whom I have learned much and gotten much joy.

I am thankful that God chose to have me born in America, the greatest, most giving country in the world.

I am thankful for the brash, loud-mouthed, sometimes foul-mouthed street fighter that is our president.  I believe that within him beats a good heart, and a patriotic soul.  He has fought for our country  both overseas and at home, and despite the relentless attacks of his enemies  he has prevailed, because he is God’s choice  for this hour.

I am thankful for the booming economy,  for the record  high stock market, for the lowest number of unemployed in  50 years, for the return of manufacturing jobs to the U.S. when  we were told they were gone forever, for the historic low unemployment rate among blacks and Hispanics which raises them out of poverty.

I  am thankful that President Trump has not embroiled us in any new undeclared war.

I am thankful that I can once again feel proud of a country that stands tall in the world and remembers that we are, in President Reagan’s world, “a shining city on a hill,” the country that saved Europe from German aggression in WWI and again in  WWII–the country whose money supports much of their defense even today.

I  am thankful that despite the few, the vast majority of Americans are neither white supremacists nor racists, that to most of us, an individual is judged by the “content of his character rather than the color of his skin” as Martin Luther King, Jr. so aptly put it.  I would rather be surrounded by a hundred neighbors “of color” than some white people that I know!

I am thankful for the freedom of speech, the freedom to practice the religion of our choice, the freedom to bear arms – all of which are guaranteed by our Constitution.

And I am  thankful for the myriad of conservative judges that have been appointed by this president to the Supreme Court, Circuit Courts of Appeal, and federal courts who will uphold the Constitution rather that make their own law.

I am thankful for the Americans who stand up for their liberties and who refuse to bow to the pressures to conform  to the idiocies of the left.

I am thankful to live in a country that is truly free.  And I am thankful to be housed and clothed and warm, with a turkey in the oven and pie in the refrigerator.  

I am thankful to the millions of Americans who have donated to groups like the Salvation Army so that others less fortunate can have a good Christmas as well.

I am thankful this Christmas for so many other things that I could go on and on.  

We celebrate today the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Savior of those who believe in Him. Let us be thankful to God for sending us this indescribable gift, and for the many other blessings He has bestowed upon us.  

Merry Christmas!