At first it seems as impossible and absurd as if a whole river served to water one single solitary flower. It seems preposterous that God should love us that much — that God should love you or me that much. But it’s true.

An infinite God’s unconditional love means that God can love each individual as if that person were the only one to receive the fullness of God’s love. It defies any kind of math logic where each person gets a fraction. God’s math means that each person receives 100% out of infinite resources.

That’s a good reason to be thankful. That’s a good reason for a Thanksgiving holiday, whether you ascribe to the original Pilgrim story or not. Actually, that should make you and I want to treat every day like a Thanksgiving — minus the part where we gorge ourselves into food comas.

The Bible commands us to live in gratitude and thanksgiving in view of what God has done for us. That’s like commanding someone who is parched with thirst to drink water or telling someone who is nearly frostbitten with cold to seek warmth. We only have to live with our eyes open to God to find a reason to be grateful and thankful.

Apart from God opening our eyes, we could never see. Apart from God seeking us first, we should never have sought God at all. That very source of thanksgiving to God comes from God and is a natural overflow of all that God lavishes on us each and every single day.

May our thanksgiving lead to thanks-living.