When thankfulness comes from our heart thanksgiving becomes more than a thursday on a calendar it becomes a lifestlye for a christian. 1 thes 5:18, heb 12:28, ps. 69:30, ps 147:7, thanksgiving is what our hearts should be about but sin is what happens when we are ungrateful and unthankful (romans 1:21-32) They did not glorify god nor give God thanks and when that occured they walked right smack into a bunch of other sins. Since I've been down in Mexico I looked around and started comparing myself with the people down here and in my heart I thought God you have blessed me so much thank you God and in my heart I thought that God was teaching me gratefulness by comparing what they have to what I have, what their health is to my health, or their poverty to mine. But then God has been teaching me that the comparsion to others was hindering my thankfulness and who hasn't done that. Your feeling down and then oh well at least I have health, family, job, dot,dot,dot. And we try to get thankfulness from it from comparing and not having our thankfulness rooted in on what God has done for us(Gal. 6:1-5, col. 2:6-7). And I was running the other day in my colony like normal and it was like God just hit me with his love and looking around I realized the little things that God has created and I was just so in awe of the little things that he had made. There was clouds, scenery, people whom our team has established relationships with in the colony(especially oscar this short lil beautiful kid whom I saw and love) and there was of course the duck that chases me every morning and its owners who laugh at me while I run away from their big scary duck. And this thanksgiving is unlike any other for me b/c I'm WoW'd of what God is doing around in the little things and I'm not focused on a week where the world says hey gives thanks this week, but from my heart thankfulness to Jesus Christ as paul says in 2 cor. 9:15. Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! God has been working through our team and has been establishing incredible relationships/changing lives and I encourage you to just look around at what God is doing and be thankful for your work in the Lord b/c it is not in vain and rejoice for He has/is/will continue to do great things.