 Hello, I'm Mike McKee, the Bishop of the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. When pumpkins begin to appear in pumpkin patches in area United Methodist churches in our communities, I begin to think about Thanksgiving. Pumpkin pie, turkey and dressing, family meal around the table with the people whom you love dearly and who love you, and of course football on Thanksgiving. And as we gather that day and during the season we'll begin to offer prayers of gratitude to our God. And we'll thank God for the many blessings in our lives, God's good gifts to us. But let us remember those in our communities who are not experiencing the abundance of God's good gifts at this time. Perhaps it's a family member who is not in the family circle this year and so that family is grieving. Perhaps a family that's been torn apart. Perhaps it's people who are simply living life but not experiencing the good abundant gifts that our God provides to us. So let our prayers be more than words directed to God. Let our prayers also be our actions, our lives to helping those people who do not yet live into the abundance of God's good gifts and God's good grace in Jesus to experience that for themselves so that next year and the rest of their life they may be able to experience and express the gratitude that we do this season. May you and yours have a blessed Thanksgiving. God bless you.