It was certainly a treat for four-year-old Tara to go shopping with her grandfather one day at the mall. Tara had many things to tell her grandfather as they went from store to store. At one point, as Tara was high upon her grandfather's shoulders, a family friend stopped to talk with them. "My, you are getting to be such a big girl," the friend remarked. With the innocence that only a child can muster she replied, "Not all of this is me!" Sometimes children are our greatest teachers without even knowing it.

Every Thanksgiving provides us an opportunity to reflect on the many blessings God has given us realizing that "not all of this is me." We pause to count our many blessings "one by one" as the hymn suggests. We could never have come this far without the grace and love of God.

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