In just a few short days – your classroom will be empty, the hallways quiet and the construction paper Thanksgiving decorations (doesn’t every classroom have a “cartoon” turkey abounding with colorful “I am thankful for . . .” feathers?) will be hanging on for just a few more days!
Once you return to school after the Thanksgiving break – it becomes “All Christmas . . all the time!” You will be busy helping your students make gifts for their parents (and trying to keep them a “secret”), planning the classroom party and replacing the brown and orange fall decorations with the red and green of Christmas. During the month of December, you will be intentional about keeping “Christ in Christmas” and teaching your students that “Jesus is the Reason for the Season.”
In the few remaining days before Thanksgiving, I would like to challenge you to be intentional about keeping “Thanks in Thanksgiving.”
- As you teach the story of the First Thanksgiving, help your students understand the need for DAILY thanksgiving and “thanks-living.”
- As you teach about God’s provision and protection for the early settlers, help your students understand God’s DAILY provision and protection in their lives.
- As you teach about Thanksgiving (the event), let your students see you living a life of thanksgiving (the attitude)!
Why hymns? Because . . .
Hymns are “ . . . statements of faith, testimonies of struggle, failure and success, and confident declarations of hope. Carefully and lovingly crafted by their creators, they’ve been used by God’s Holy Spirit to challenge and encourage the souls of generations of believers. Some consider them antiquated and irrelevant to contemporary culture, but I’m confident these cherished expressions of our Christian faith – these hymns of grateful praise – will speak fervently for years to come.” (Michael Faircloth as written on the jacket of the album Grateful Praise: Hymns for Piano).
Enjoy the hymns and let’s keep the THANKS in THANKSGIVING!
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