55 - How Thanksgiving Can Inspire Your Apologetics

I love Thanksgiving. Every year my side of the family gets together. My wife makes an absolutely unbelievable corn casserole. My contribution: I write a little family liturgy and we have a worship time as a family (we read the story of the first Thanksgiving, we sing a song or two, read Scripture, and pray.). So can we talk about thanksgiving? No, not the holiday, the attitude. Or we might say, the desire. That is, there is in each of us the innate desire to be grateful for the good things in our lives. We want to give thanks. Is it possible that the gratitude we feel when we experience goodness is itself evidence for God? I propose that the gratitude we feel–the very desire we have to want to give thanks to someone or something for gifts such as life, love, and the magnificence of human experience–makes no sense without God. To the extent that gratitude wells up within us when we admire a starry night sky or a freshly snow-covered field this winter, we experience something we are created to feel. We see that we were created to give thanks to God. Get the full show notes at http://thethink.institute