 Hello, I'm Mike McKee, the Bishop of the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. One of my favorite holidays, if not my favorite, is Thanksgiving. It's the time in which we gather friends and family around the table. And while we may eat too much, we're aware that we do that because we're expressing gratitude to our God. It's during the coming weeks as we prepare to celebrate that holiday in our country, in our homes and out in the community. I want you to invite you to think about what it means to be a person of gratitude and to understand what it means to live as a person who is totally devoted to our God and is grateful to our God for each and every good blessing in our lives. And during this time, I'd like for us to think about creating a culture in the North Texas Conference, a culture of what it means to be a servant. Grateful for what God has done for each one of us. We then acknowledge that we have the opportunity to express gratitude to our God by being God's servant in the community. And so as you gather around the table, express to God your deepest gratitude. But grounded in that gratitude, would you make a vow in a covenant to be a person who will be a servant in the world? May you have a blessed Thanksgiving.