We have so much to be thankful for - our freedom, being the most important. Free to choose, free to act, free to do whatever we wish, within limits of the law, without fear of being killed. Even when we act outside the law, it is by choice and in rare cases will we be killed. Free to wake up and take a walk around the block, admiring creation wherever we go - without a fear of death or kidnapping, shootings, or beheadings. We have so much to thank the men and women who today stand between the abyss of darkness and what many of us have taken for granted.
We have the chance to grow up, to become, to be, and to do ... without fear of secret police or threats, intimidation, or death. We do not pay rival warlords to drive from county to county. We do not fear our bus being stopped and the occupants being marched into the jungle to be beheaded. We do not fear our buses being blown up, our malls the sites of mass slaughter. We do not fear the knock on the door from the collector, not of our rent, but of extortion money to keep us safe. We live today in the greatest country on earth, for all its faults and warts, none compare. Yet so many do not give thanks, they criticize, attack, and whine.
Part of thanksgiving, a large part, is gratitude. Gratitude for the beauty and wonder around us - the freedom we have and the opportunities we are provided.
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