But i'm not just going to post "Happy Thanksgiving" and leave it at that. Don't you know there's more to this holiday than eating turkey and gravy?

Seriously. This is a truely special holiday for Christians; almost as special as Christmas. It has a great spiritual meaning for us.

While it's mostly glossed over these days, Thanksgiving was initially created as a day to remember when the Pilgrims and other early settlers and how through the grace of God they survived. Literally, it was about being thankful to god for being able to survive to and in the new world.

These days, the context has changed some, but the principle is still the same. We need to be thankful to God for sending his Son, Jesus, to die on the cross for us and our sins. But there's other things we can be thankful for; we can be thankful for all our troops who are fighting and dying to give us the right to celebrate this holiday, for example. That's one thing i'm very much grateful for.

This Thanksgiving, don't just loaf around, eating pie and hollowly say a few trivial things that come off the top of your head to be thankful. Take a look at your Bible and be reminded of what God did for us, and what Jesus did for us, and be thankful for that. Find something to be truely grateful for, like our dear friend Icepunk, out in Germany, serving our armed forces.

But please, don't just snarf some food and say some generic, meaningless thing to be thankful for. I'll track you down and get medieval on your tuchis.