T'ank You

This week's song is "T'ank You" by Daniel Band from the album "Straight Ahead" released in 1983.

As I wake each morning and begin thinking of the day to come, I inevitably begin thanking God for a whole spectrum of things. I have plenty to be thankful for. I have a Godly wife. Servant-minded children. Amazing parents. And so goes the list, on and on.

It is not just the big things though. I am thankful for the silly dog I hear rolling about in the back yard. For the wind and the birds singing their songs. Even the chirping of the quarreling squirrels parading around on my roof.

It seems the longer I think of things I am thankful for the more things come to mind  for which to be thankful, like yeast raising bread.

I am thankful for my accomplishments. I am blessed to have been in business for 25 years now. Even greater, I am thankful for the teaching I have been able to do at  church and home. For the opportunities that I have had. I am oh so grateful for the ability to learn new things, and often do. I am thankful for the many years lived on this blue marble.

Being thankful is an attitude of life. It is a recognition of the things around us. It is the opposite of self pity, which is easy to get trapped in.

Even though I have a thankful heart, my imagination finally wears thin. John 1 talks about the carpenter Jesus who has always been and who is the creator of everything. He was there in the beginning. Creating. Can you imagine the imagination? He who created the peacock, also created the platypus. And me. He can accomplish things that I cannot even conceive of or think to ask for.

I am mostly thankful for a God who, from time to time, allows me to see through the cracks at his amazing imagination.

Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.

~ Ephesians 3:20

"T'ank You" by Daniel Band is not the sort of song I normally listen to. For that matter, it is not even the sort of song Daniel Band wrote. They are a Canadian hard rock band that was mostly active in the 1980s. This song steps away from their wheelhouse musically and takes more of a reggae form. Sounds weird, and yet I have listened to it countless times.

It is a simple song of thanks to God for what he has done and what he has created.