November 21, 2023 • 17 mins
Did you know that Thanksgiving is a holiday that only exists in the US? This episode is a journey down memory lane, revisiting Thanksgiving traditions and cherished family memories. As your hosts, Nick and Aaron, we'll take you back to the beginnings of this holiday, reminiscing about our grandmother's feast and exploring the significance of gratitude. We'll also share the often forgotten story behind this holiday, originally a 1621 harvest feast. This is a heartwarming conversation that not only piques your nostalgia but also educates about the origins of Thanksgiving.
But, Thanksgiving is more than just turkey and cranberry sauce. It's also about the deep-rooted practice of being thankful. Expressing gratitude towards God and cherishing moments spent with loved ones are pillars of this holiday that we highlight in this episode. And in the spirit of Thanksgiving, we ask you to share our Two Fish Podcast with others. We believe that our messages of faith and gratitude can bring light into others' lives. So, come join us in this exploration of Thanksgiving, its traditions, and its deeper meanings.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome back to the two fish podcast.
My name is Nick, I'm Aaron andthis week we're going to
celebrate Thanksgiving on thetwo fish podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble.
That's right, it's nap time.
Happy Thanksgiving.
That's the best part aboutThanksgiving it's the afternoon
nap.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Sleeping, sleeping.
I don't know if I do that.
I'm sure I have.
I've eaten way too much.
How do?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
you not sleep after you eat all that?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I do get tired.
You're right, I probably have.
Yep, I don't know.
We always welcome two fishpodcast.
Aaron and I are just going ontangents here, but we're just
going to talk about Thanksgiving.
This episode will come out theweek of Thanksgiving.
You're hearing this.
Hopefully you're taking time tospend time with family, with
(00:56):
friends, or however youcelebrate, and for us growing up
, that was always at mygrandma's house.
That was always with grandmaand grandpa.
We ate way too much.
Up until just recently as of acouple of years ago, I thought
grandma and grandma would neverlet any of us bring anything.
(01:19):
I thought she made everythingand she would Like we had a
feast.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And she passed beyond belief of how much food we had
and she made it all.
She wouldn't let anyone bringanything.
It was her holiday and, upuntil recently, someone I won't
say who it was decided to informme.
No, grandma buys a lot of itfrom a local.
She catered she catered a bunchof it and I had no idea.
(01:51):
That's awesome, and so I'vetold this person who's very
close to me you have ruined.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's giving for me yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
She, she catered.
There's a local place that willdo the whole spread if you want
, and she got a lot of it fromthere.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, except my childhood is all lie.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
She had all you kids.
I slaved over this.
Yeah, we thought that's how itwas.
Sure, did she whipped out thatcredit card?
Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Check, but she probably wrote a check, I don't
know.
I doubt they had credit cards.
So yeah, that's my Thanksgivingmemory growing up Look
different now I'm past the waylast year, so this year will be
a little bit different, but it'sstill going to be great.
We're going to still spend itwith family and and my cousins
that we don't get to see it veryoften.
We're going to spend it withthem.
(02:44):
So what is your Thanksgivingtradition?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Our Thanksgiving tradition has kind of changed.
We used to try every other yearto go down and see my brother,
but that's changed.
Just hasn't worked out the lastfew years.
So we had been rotating with mywife's family on who hosted.
She comes from a little bitlarger family but we are
(03:12):
privileged to be able to host itagain.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So privileged.
Yeah, that is the word you usedor your wife used.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The word I'm going with privileged.
Um.
No, we should be thankful thatwe can host it, we have a house
that can fit everybody in it,and so, yeah, my parents will be
coming over, and her family andboth your families.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, my mom and dad, my brother, yeah, lives in
another state.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, so that's cool.
Yeah, you're hostingThanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, we don't have any like traditional anything on
Thanksgiving Food wise, it'sthe typical turkey and okay,
hannah, yeah.
And uh, pumpkin pie.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Nice, there you go, it's on me Gotta have pumpkin
pie.
The Cowboys will play yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah they alwaysplay on.
Thanksgiving.
We never watch the game, butit's always on and I don't watch
, we don't have TV.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So, oh, that's true, oh, we don't have cable.
Let's put that we have a TV,but we've.
We started this long before itwas a thing and didn't have,
yeah, just streamed or playedDVDs all day.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
DVDs.
That's an old technology now.
Yeah, crazy.
I guess I've never reallythought about it.
We've done this is at least ourthird Thanksgiving episode.
That's crazy three years, Iknow it is.
I'm sure if we went back andlooked at them, these, these
kind of episodes are prettysimilar.
Because, you're being thankful,but we do have an international
(04:50):
group of people that listen tothe show, and here and I were
talking.
It's like maybe we shouldexplain Thanksgiving.
I I'm sure there's differentvariations of Thanksgiving
everywhere, but or likeeverywhere as in in the world.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, yeah, I Don't know that would be.
I didn't look up to othercountries celebrate.
Thanksgiving or is it a USexclusive?
It's probably US exclusivebecause we're that awesome.
Then we have Thanksgiving.
It's a general belief thatThanksgiving is modeled after a
(05:28):
1621 harvest feast between thepilgrims and an Indian tribe,
which would have been like 100years before America became
America.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So the English came over, set up the colonies.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yep and then, at some point, they had a feast with
Indians.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, the Indians came together with the pilgrims
and they traded food and theyall brought food together.
I'm sure that's where streetcorn came from.
The Indians brought corn andmaize and whatever and and we
sat down with them and we justcelebrated and being thankful.
I mean, the pilgrims got here,the Indians found a new friend
(06:14):
and they celebrated what God haddone.
I mean, back then God was verymuch more a part of every day
Than it is now here in America.
Now it should be shouldn't bewith Christians, obviously but
they all got together and theycelebrated.
Look what God has done.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well, the Indians didn't believe in God.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You're right.
Okay, and for the pilgrims, itwas very much.
You know they got here, therewas hard winter, they made it
through.
It was very much a thank.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
God.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
We're thankful for what we have.
We're thankful for where we'reat.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, the, the early English the people would have
came over here would have beenaccustomed to Regularly
celebrating Thanksgiving, whichwould have been days of prayer
and thanking God for blessings,and all of that.
Later we turned Thanksgivinginto a.
I don't know why we reallycelebrate it outside of Well.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
A day off of school, a day off of work.
Yeah, if you're lucky, you getthe Friday off too and your
family gets together and yourfamily gets together.
But then you sin by eating waytoo much and being a glutton.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh, you're definitely , we're definitely glutton.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
No, it's definitely changed, because we don't
necessarily.
And Our family always goesaround the table and as I grew
up, I hated this, just becauseit was.
I felt like it was awkward, butwe went around the table and
said we were thankful for, andyou always wanted to go first so
that you could say the the mostbasic thing first, because I
was never good at coming up withsomething.
(07:45):
But it's a time to reflect andthank God for what you have in
your life, whether it be family,friends, health, because not
everyone has all those things.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Right, I think that's .
I think we've shared this, foryou has did that, and we never
do that around ours.
But, um, to sit and think ofthe things that you can be
thankful for, even in the midstof struggles right, there's a
lot of people struggling rightnow.
Like to go by.
The Thanksgiving meal this yearis probably going to cost you a
(08:19):
hundred to $200 more with theway inflation is here in America
.
The rest of the world I don'tknow what inflation looks like
for them, but I imagine it'ssame because it's through the
roof here, right?
Um, so I imagine Thanksgivingyou're going to look a little
different, for for most tablesin the U?
(08:39):
S or it's really going tostretch people's budget.
But I think to be thankful thatwe can even do it, yeah, is,
and that's why earlier I saidit's a privilege that we get to
host it and that we're able todo that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And even if it does look different yeah thankful
that you're still able to gettogether with family right and
be thankful even if there's notas much on the table this year
which probably not bad thing, Ifyou pointed to be sending too
much eat too much.
I love and obviously this iskind of on a history lesson here
(09:17):
but two fish podcast.
We go to the Bible and right,like you said, uh, first
Thessalonians, which we're goingthrough.
If you haven't been with us inour study of first Thessalonians
, go back some episodes andlisten to them.
But first Thessalonians,chapter five, haven't gotten
there yet.
But verse 18, give thanks inall circumstances, for this is
the will of God in Christ Jesus.
(09:39):
For you and I think, like yousaid, it may look different, the
circumstances may not be asgood in years past for some, but
that doesn't mean we withholdour thanks.
We need to be thankful for whatwe have and look at the joy in
even the struggles.
And at the end there it saysfor this is the will of God to
(10:01):
be thankful in all circumstances.
I think that's superchallenging.
No, that's really challengingCause there's so many
circumstances even in our day today minute dumb stuff we're.
There's zero reason.
Zero part of me wants to bethankful right now, cause I feel
like whatever it is not beingthankful, but it's the will.
(10:21):
No matter what the table lookslike this year, hopefully you're
with family, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
We recently had a sidebar conversation and I think
it fits in.
I think it fits into.
This is a day to hit pause andto spend with your family and
not to bring up COVID, but, likeduring COVID, we had to hit
that pause and we spent moretime with our families.
And I think this is a anopportunity.
(10:49):
Once again.
It's a holiday here in Americawhere you get some days that
sometimes it can be stressfulbecause you got to go from one
house to the next.
Sometimes there's multipleThanksgiving dinners, right, but
hit that pause button on thatanxiety and that anger.
And I also think it's like themost traveled day, especially
(11:14):
via car in America.
Yeah, like just hit that pausebutton and be think about it and
be thankful that you're, you'reone, you're able to do it to,
you're going to see your family.
Both Nick and I have had a lotof deaths in our family and I
think, like extended family hasbecome really hard to get
(11:35):
together with.
Yeah, so if you're able to go tothat Thanksgiving dinner with
that extended family it just begrateful for that, yeah, and
that existence, and like it justdoesn't happen like it used to.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, no, it doesn't.
For us, christmas season is theone where we have to bounce
from house to house to house,day to day to day.
And you're right, it'sfrustrating, there's anxiety
about it, especially if you gotto bring food and a gift for
whoever knows how many peopleand what are we for us as the
Christmas?
But, yes, thanksgiving, ifyou're going from house to house
(12:12):
, that can be a, in some cases,maybe a bitter thing.
I don't want to.
I don't want to go here.
I don't want to do this.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I'm already full.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, and you're going into it not being thankful
that, like you said, thesepeople, some, some of these
people you don't see, but once ayear, twice a year, why go into
it being frustrated?
Right, that's good.
I like that and I think thatcan be a challenge for the rest
of the year and each of theseseasons coming up, whether it be
Thanksgiving, christmas, newYear's, whatever it is.
(12:43):
That's good.
Another scripture we can go toPsalms nine, one through one,
one and two.
I will give thanks to the Lordwith my whole heart.
I will recount all of yourwonderful deeds, I will be glad
and exalt you in it.
I will sing your praise to him.
I will sing praise to your name.
(13:04):
Oh, most high.
It's not.
He's not just thanking God forwhat he's got around him, he's
thinking God for what God's done, and that's something we
typically would think of andcelebrate at Christmas.
Thank you, lord for or Easter.
Thank you for being born Lordon Christmas.
Thank you for dying on thecross at Easter.
(13:24):
But all of the deeds in betweenthere that he's done in our
lives, those are.
We also need to be thankful forthose, even little stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
No, we like to discount the little things in
life and sometimes those littlethings are the ones that hang us
up to we.
We discount the good littlethings and we over emphasize the
bad little things sometimes andI think bringing in that
thought of thankfulness to thosesituations can help with that.
(13:54):
The one thing I'm sitting hereand I'm like what your sharing
is really good, but I'm justthinking like the early the
prodigal son is like an apicture of Thanksgiving.
When the son came back, thefather threw a feast right Like
he threw a party.
It ticked off.
The other guy has other sonright Like he was mad that he
(14:15):
threw the party for the one thatthat just threw everything away
.
But I think in America we havetaken Thanksgiving and made it
one day.
But I think there should bemany more days of Thanksgiving
that we we actually celebrate.
And I think we had an episode.
It was when your brother comesto Christ.
Yeah, what's next?
(14:36):
Right, that should be a day ofThanksgiving.
We shouldn't have a feast forthat guy.
We should have something morethan a pat on the back and a hug
after you got baptized, like.
I think that is the truemeaning behind what Thanksgiving
was supposed to be, compared towhat we do with it now which is
football and over-eating, yeahthat.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
maybe Thanksgiving should be not just a day but a
season, or I mean all throughthe year we should be
celebrating Thanksgiving, yeah,as it should be intended to be.
The food just is a bonus.
Sometimes you got a lure familyin and the only way to lure
them in is with food andfootball.
But the point of it is thestuff on top of the food and the
(15:21):
football, and it's taking thetime to be thankful and reflect.
That's good.
Easter could be a season ofThanksgiving, Christmas a season
of Thanksgiving and every dayin between that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I love it, oh for sure.
I think we've narrowed it downto like one day and over
complicated it, probably, but itshould be a.
There should be multipleThanksgiving in our lives.
I feel, yeah, not just this oneday, but this is a day that
you're gonna get your familytogether and it's a day to sit
and be thankful for your familyand what you have.
(15:54):
But I think you could carrythat into other months in the
year and things that happen inyour life and yeah, yeah, that's
good.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Several challenges there through that, I think, for
me.
While I am thankful for all thethings in my life, I need to
make sure that I'm giving thanksand making it be known that I
am thankful that God hasprovided all those things for me
, allowed those things into mylife.
It's not by my own doing, butthese are the deeds that have
(16:27):
lined up, that God's providedfor me, that have come together
Does that make sense.
Yeah, keep your pride out of it, right.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, there you go.
That's good.
It is God that has providedthese things and allowed for us
to have them and to do it.
We need to make sure that weare glorifying him and not
ourselves.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That's good.
I love it.
Challenges there.
Challenge for you on top ofthat, as we leave this episode
when you're at Thanksgiving,share the Two Fish podcast,
share it, hit this weekend, hitthe like, hit the subscribe, hit
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(17:11):
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Have a wonderful Thanksgivingand we will see you next time on
the Two Fish podcast.
Welcome back to the two fish podcast.
My name is Nick, I'm Aaron andthis week we're going to
celebrate Thanksgiving on thetwo fish podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Gobble gobble, gobble gobble.
That's right, it's nap time.
Happy Thanksgiving.
That's the best part aboutThanksgiving it's the afternoon
nap.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Sleeping, sleeping.
I don't know if I do that.
I'm sure I have.
I've eaten way too much.
How do?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
you not sleep after you eat all that?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I do get tired.
You're right, I probably have.
Yep, I don't know.
We always welcome two fishpodcast.
Aaron and I are just going ontangents here, but we're just
going to talk about Thanksgiving.
This episode will come out theweek of Thanksgiving.
You're hearing this.
Hopefully you're taking time tospend time with family, with
(00:56):
friends, or however youcelebrate, and for us growing up
, that was always at mygrandma's house.
That was always with grandmaand grandpa.
We ate way too much.
Up until just recently as of acouple of years ago, I thought
grandma and grandma would neverlet any of us bring anything.
(01:19):
I thought she made everythingand she would Like we had a
feast.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
And she passed beyond belief of how much food we had
and she made it all.
She wouldn't let anyone bringanything.
It was her holiday and, upuntil recently, someone I won't
say who it was decided to informme.
No, grandma buys a lot of itfrom a local.
She catered she catered a bunchof it and I had no idea.
(01:51):
That's awesome, and so I'vetold this person who's very
close to me you have ruined.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's giving for me yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
She, she catered.
There's a local place that willdo the whole spread if you want
, and she got a lot of it fromthere.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, except my childhood is all lie.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
She had all you kids.
I slaved over this.
Yeah, we thought that's how itwas.
Sure, did she whipped out thatcredit card?
Yep.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Check, but she probably wrote a check, I don't
know.
I doubt they had credit cards.
So yeah, that's my Thanksgivingmemory growing up Look
different now I'm past the waylast year, so this year will be
a little bit different, but it'sstill going to be great.
We're going to still spend itwith family and and my cousins
that we don't get to see it veryoften.
We're going to spend it withthem.
(02:44):
So what is your Thanksgivingtradition?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Our Thanksgiving tradition has kind of changed.
We used to try every other yearto go down and see my brother,
but that's changed.
Just hasn't worked out the lastfew years.
So we had been rotating with mywife's family on who hosted.
She comes from a little bitlarger family but we are
(03:12):
privileged to be able to host itagain.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So privileged.
Yeah, that is the word you usedor your wife used.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
The word I'm going with privileged.
Um.
No, we should be thankful thatwe can host it, we have a house
that can fit everybody in it,and so, yeah, my parents will be
coming over, and her family andboth your families.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, my mom and dad, my brother, yeah, lives in
another state.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, so that's cool.
Yeah, you're hostingThanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, we don't have any like traditional anything on
Thanksgiving Food wise, it'sthe typical turkey and okay,
hannah, yeah.
And uh, pumpkin pie.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Nice, there you go, it's on me Gotta have pumpkin
pie.
The Cowboys will play yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah they alwaysplay on.
Thanksgiving.
We never watch the game, butit's always on and I don't watch
, we don't have TV.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So, oh, that's true, oh, we don't have cable.
Let's put that we have a TV,but we've.
We started this long before itwas a thing and didn't have,
yeah, just streamed or playedDVDs all day.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
DVDs.
That's an old technology now.
Yeah, crazy.
I guess I've never reallythought about it.
We've done this is at least ourthird Thanksgiving episode.
That's crazy three years, Iknow it is.
I'm sure if we went back andlooked at them, these, these
kind of episodes are prettysimilar.
Because, you're being thankful,but we do have an international
(04:50):
group of people that listen tothe show, and here and I were
talking.
It's like maybe we shouldexplain Thanksgiving.
I I'm sure there's differentvariations of Thanksgiving
everywhere, but or likeeverywhere as in in the world.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, yeah, I Don't know that would be.
I didn't look up to othercountries celebrate.
Thanksgiving or is it a USexclusive?
It's probably US exclusivebecause we're that awesome.
Then we have Thanksgiving.
It's a general belief thatThanksgiving is modeled after a
(05:28):
1621 harvest feast between thepilgrims and an Indian tribe,
which would have been like 100years before America became
America.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
So the English came over, set up the colonies.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yep and then, at some point, they had a feast with
Indians.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, the Indians came together with the pilgrims
and they traded food and theyall brought food together.
I'm sure that's where streetcorn came from.
The Indians brought corn andmaize and whatever and and we
sat down with them and we justcelebrated and being thankful.
I mean, the pilgrims got here,the Indians found a new friend
(06:14):
and they celebrated what God haddone.
I mean, back then God was verymuch more a part of every day
Than it is now here in America.
Now it should be shouldn't bewith Christians, obviously but
they all got together and theycelebrated.
Look what God has done.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well, the Indians didn't believe in God.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You're right.
Okay, and for the pilgrims, itwas very much.
You know they got here, therewas hard winter, they made it
through.
It was very much a thank.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
God.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
We're thankful for what we have.
We're thankful for where we'reat.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, the, the early English the people would have
came over here would have beenaccustomed to Regularly
celebrating Thanksgiving, whichwould have been days of prayer
and thanking God for blessings,and all of that.
Later we turned Thanksgivinginto a.
I don't know why we reallycelebrate it outside of Well.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
A day off of school, a day off of work.
Yeah, if you're lucky, you getthe Friday off too and your
family gets together and yourfamily gets together.
But then you sin by eating waytoo much and being a glutton.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh, you're definitely , we're definitely glutton.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
No, it's definitely changed, because we don't
necessarily.
And Our family always goesaround the table and as I grew
up, I hated this, just becauseit was.
I felt like it was awkward, butwe went around the table and
said we were thankful for, andyou always wanted to go first so
that you could say the the mostbasic thing first, because I
was never good at coming up withsomething.
(07:45):
But it's a time to reflect andthank God for what you have in
your life, whether it be family,friends, health, because not
everyone has all those things.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Right, I think that's .
I think we've shared this, foryou has did that, and we never
do that around ours.
But, um, to sit and think ofthe things that you can be
thankful for, even in the midstof struggles right, there's a
lot of people struggling rightnow.
Like to go by.
The Thanksgiving meal this yearis probably going to cost you a
(08:19):
hundred to $200 more with theway inflation is here in America
.
The rest of the world I don'tknow what inflation looks like
for them, but I imagine it'ssame because it's through the
roof here, right?
Um, so I imagine Thanksgivingyou're going to look a little
different, for for most tablesin the U?
(08:39):
S or it's really going tostretch people's budget.
But I think to be thankful thatwe can even do it, yeah, is,
and that's why earlier I saidit's a privilege that we get to
host it and that we're able todo that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
And even if it does look different yeah thankful
that you're still able to gettogether with family right and
be thankful even if there's notas much on the table this year
which probably not bad thing, Ifyou pointed to be sending too
much eat too much.
I love and obviously this iskind of on a history lesson here
(09:17):
but two fish podcast.
We go to the Bible and right,like you said, uh, first
Thessalonians, which we're goingthrough.
If you haven't been with us inour study of first Thessalonians
, go back some episodes andlisten to them.
But first Thessalonians,chapter five, haven't gotten
there yet.
But verse 18, give thanks inall circumstances, for this is
the will of God in Christ Jesus.
(09:39):
For you and I think, like yousaid, it may look different, the
circumstances may not be asgood in years past for some, but
that doesn't mean we withholdour thanks.
We need to be thankful for whatwe have and look at the joy in
even the struggles.
And at the end there it saysfor this is the will of God to
(10:01):
be thankful in all circumstances.
I think that's superchallenging.
No, that's really challengingCause there's so many
circumstances even in our day today minute dumb stuff we're.
There's zero reason.
Zero part of me wants to bethankful right now, cause I feel
like whatever it is not beingthankful, but it's the will.
(10:21):
No matter what the table lookslike this year, hopefully you're
with family, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
We recently had a sidebar conversation and I think
it fits in.
I think it fits into.
This is a day to hit pause andto spend with your family and
not to bring up COVID, but, likeduring COVID, we had to hit
that pause and we spent moretime with our families.
And I think this is a anopportunity.
(10:49):
Once again.
It's a holiday here in Americawhere you get some days that
sometimes it can be stressfulbecause you got to go from one
house to the next.
Sometimes there's multipleThanksgiving dinners, right, but
hit that pause button on thatanxiety and that anger.
And I also think it's like themost traveled day, especially
(11:14):
via car in America.
Yeah, like just hit that pausebutton and be think about it and
be thankful that you're, you'reone, you're able to do it to,
you're going to see your family.
Both Nick and I have had a lotof deaths in our family and I
think, like extended family hasbecome really hard to get
(11:35):
together with.
Yeah, so if you're able to go tothat Thanksgiving dinner with
that extended family it just begrateful for that, yeah, and
that existence, and like it justdoesn't happen like it used to.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Yeah, no, it doesn't.
For us, christmas season is theone where we have to bounce
from house to house to house,day to day to day.
And you're right, it'sfrustrating, there's anxiety
about it, especially if you gotto bring food and a gift for
whoever knows how many peopleand what are we for us as the
Christmas?
But, yes, thanksgiving, ifyou're going from house to house
(12:12):
, that can be a, in some cases,maybe a bitter thing.
I don't want to.
I don't want to go here.
I don't want to do this.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I'm already full.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, and you're going into it not being thankful
that, like you said, thesepeople, some, some of these
people you don't see, but once ayear, twice a year, why go into
it being frustrated?
Right, that's good.
I like that and I think thatcan be a challenge for the rest
of the year and each of theseseasons coming up, whether it be
Thanksgiving, christmas, newYear's, whatever it is.
(12:43):
That's good.
Another scripture we can go toPsalms nine, one through one,
one and two.
I will give thanks to the Lordwith my whole heart.
I will recount all of yourwonderful deeds, I will be glad
and exalt you in it.
I will sing your praise to him.
I will sing praise to your name.
(13:04):
Oh, most high.
It's not.
He's not just thanking God forwhat he's got around him, he's
thinking God for what God's done, and that's something we
typically would think of andcelebrate at Christmas.
Thank you, lord for or Easter.
Thank you for being born Lordon Christmas.
Thank you for dying on thecross at Easter.
(13:24):
But all of the deeds in betweenthere that he's done in our
lives, those are.
We also need to be thankful forthose, even little stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
No, we like to discount the little things in
life and sometimes those littlethings are the ones that hang us
up to we.
We discount the good littlethings and we over emphasize the
bad little things sometimes andI think bringing in that
thought of thankfulness to thosesituations can help with that.
(13:54):
The one thing I'm sitting hereand I'm like what your sharing
is really good, but I'm justthinking like the early the
prodigal son is like an apicture of Thanksgiving.
When the son came back, thefather threw a feast right Like
he threw a party.
It ticked off.
The other guy has other sonright Like he was mad that he
(14:15):
threw the party for the one thatthat just threw everything away
.
But I think in America we havetaken Thanksgiving and made it
one day.
But I think there should bemany more days of Thanksgiving
that we we actually celebrate.
And I think we had an episode.
It was when your brother comesto Christ.
Yeah, what's next?
(14:36):
Right, that should be a day ofThanksgiving.
We shouldn't have a feast forthat guy.
We should have something morethan a pat on the back and a hug
after you got baptized, like.
I think that is the truemeaning behind what Thanksgiving
was supposed to be, compared towhat we do with it now which is
football and over-eating, yeahthat.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
maybe Thanksgiving should be not just a day but a
season, or I mean all throughthe year we should be
celebrating Thanksgiving, yeah,as it should be intended to be.
The food just is a bonus.
Sometimes you got a lure familyin and the only way to lure
them in is with food andfootball.
But the point of it is thestuff on top of the food and the
(15:21):
football, and it's taking thetime to be thankful and reflect.
That's good.
Easter could be a season ofThanksgiving, Christmas a season
of Thanksgiving and every dayin between that.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I love it, oh for sure.
I think we've narrowed it downto like one day and over
complicated it, probably, but itshould be a.
There should be multipleThanksgiving in our lives.
I feel, yeah, not just this oneday, but this is a day that
you're gonna get your familytogether and it's a day to sit
and be thankful for your familyand what you have.
(15:54):
But I think you could carrythat into other months in the
year and things that happen inyour life and yeah, yeah, that's
good.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Several challenges there through that, I think, for
me.
While I am thankful for all thethings in my life, I need to
make sure that I'm giving thanksand making it be known that I
am thankful that God hasprovided all those things for me
, allowed those things into mylife.
It's not by my own doing, butthese are the deeds that have
(16:27):
lined up, that God's providedfor me, that have come together
Does that make sense.
Yeah, keep your pride out of it, right.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, there you go.
That's good.
It is God that has providedthese things and allowed for us
to have them and to do it.
We need to make sure that weare glorifying him and not
ourselves.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
That's good.
I love it.
Challenges there.
Challenge for you on top ofthat, as we leave this episode
when you're at Thanksgiving,share the Two Fish podcast,
share it, hit this weekend, hitthe like, hit the subscribe, hit
the five star Whatever thebuttons is, whatever you're used
(17:11):
, listen to this and then sharethe podcast, because we want to
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