Thank You
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We will be celebrating Thanksgiving this week. I love that in Spanish, the term “Thanksgiving Day” is translated, “Día de Acción de Gracias” - essentially “Day of Action of Thanks.” More than just counting our blessings quietly in our head, we take action and say, “Thank you.”
We have been taught from a young age to use this phrase; it trips so readily from our lips, almost without thought. As we say it, there can be much deeper meaning than what appears on the surface.
When I said it to the members of the patient transport staff in the hospital, it meant: “I am grateful that by wheeling me around this facility, you are giving me and my loved ones one less thing to deal with today. Thank you that I don’t need to know my way around this maze of hallways, nor get there under my own efforts.”
When I said it to members of my medical team, it meant: “Thank you for the training that you and your families sacrificed time and money to obtain. Thank you for keeping up with the latest advances so my prognosis is much better than it would have been years ago.”
When I said it to the friends who drove me to appointments, it meant: “I appreciate you doing this. I might have been able to drive myself if you hadn’t, but your sacrifice of time means so much to me. Spending time with you has brightened my day.”
When I said it to those who wrote me encouraging messages, it meant: “You have no idea how much your act of kindness cheered me today, and will continue to in the coming days.”
There are some people I will never get to thank directly because I never met them, they were just doing their jobs behind the scenes. To them, my thank you would mean, “I am grateful that you showed up to work. I hope that you can see in the big picture, your task is very important.”
I thank you, dear readers, for allowing me to share my thoughts with you.
Finally, I say thank You to the everlasting God. To Him alone be the glory.
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Dear readers, please feel free to share below in the comments section your thank yous and the meaning behind them. May we be an encouragement to each other with our words.