I Thank You

Good Morning and Happy Friday!

Per the district calendar, it looks like we don’t have any athletic action going on this evening… hope this allows everyone to have a relaxing weekend!

This coming week we have a lot going on for a short (1.5 days) week.  Good luck to our elementary and junior high UIL groups that will be traveling to Abilene Wylie for competition on Monday.  Also, best of luck to GHS FFA Issues Team as they compete in the FFA Area contest on Tuesday, November 24^th.  Also on Tuesday, we have our junior high girls and high school girls/boys basketball teams at home against Breckenridge. 

I Thank You

Sometime ago a friend shared a speech with me called "Powerful Phrases for Positive People." These are very simple -- but powerful -- phrases we all like to hear: "I'm proud of you." "I believe in you." "I trust you." "I love you." "You can do it."

With Thanksgiving Day approaching, we all should be focused on another one of these powerful phrases, in particular: "I thank you." We can never wear out that phrase. It should always be on the tip of our tongue if we are truly grateful to others who help us each day and to God who has richly blessed us with more abundance and freedom than any country in history.

Despite God's abundant blessings, we're often too slow to give thanks and too quick to complain. Maybe we're so focused on ourselves and busy with our lives that we forget to give thanks. Or maybe it's because many of us in America have become complacent with a level of luxury and leisure beyond the imagination of much of the world's population.

We tend to take our blessings for granted, like the story about a homeowner who hired a real estate agent to prepare an ad to sell his home. The homeowner was reading the ad in the paper about his home's many attractive features. He called the real estate agent to say he no longer wished to sell. When asked what changed his mind, the homeowner said, "After reading your ad, I realized I already live in the house I always wanted to live in."

In this season of Thanksgiving in particular, it's time to count our blessings and pull out that simple phrase, "I thank you."

I hope each of you experience a blessed Thanksgiving holiday!

Corny Joke of the Day:

Which side of a turkey has the most feathers?

The outside!