I had been planning on doing a little homily on Thanksgiving because of what Thom Hartman was saying the other day about gratitude. If you smile your seretonin level goes up and if you exercise gratitude in your life you will live longer. Living in gratitude is good for your mental health. I guess if he says it it's true. But I haven't had the mental energy to type an exposee like this. I've felt just a little under the weather the past couple of days like I was coming down with something, perhaps because of the cold weather we've had around here lately. It was still a lot warmer here than in Green Bay last night when it was windy and rainy with temperatures in the thirties for that little number retirement celebration they held. Chicago won the game and I'm happy about that. I guess President Obama is happy today. I have said myself that even with my own rather distant view of God, that it's a good idea to live in gratitude tword God. Some people say that if you narrowly excape death like sit in a different place in a restaurant than usual and escape the worst effects of some bombing explosion- - then this is "Divine intervention". I would use the world "providence" myself for these events by with seeming flookish luck a person narrowly escapes death.
On Wednesday Dr Levy returned to the place here for a class meeting. A chief topic on the agenda is organizing the Christmas party Dr Levy has held every year since I've been in his class since 2009. He buys all the food and it's high class merchandise too. We didn't have any planned study topic for the day. The previous time our class met was about a month ago when we were going to start a comparitive religion class. We got our Christmas tree in the lobby here the day before Thanksgiving. It's not the one in the photo which was a shot from two years ago. But with the cold weather the spirit of the Holidays is here. Black Friday is today. Naturally I think you should boycott these places like Target that open at six in the evening on Thanksgiving. The earliest a Black Friday sale should begin is at six or seven in the morning. There is no reason in God's green earth to open a department store any earlier than that. People need the whole day of Thanksgiving off. And I hope people will lend their patronage to these stores that honor the Thanksgiving holiday. Remember that the four letter word we should have on our minds is not "Sale" but "Love". It's family values that count. Well, that's my little sermon for today.
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