DON'T FORGET TO SAY THANK YOU!!

"I thank my God upon every remembrance of you". Philippians 1:3. During thanksgiving season I heard a story over the radio about a 80 plus years old literature teacher. A successful doctor who remembered his 8th grade teacher wrote her a letter. For that he received a reply from her. "You will never know how much your letter meant. I am 82 years old and living alone. My friends and family are all gone. I taught school for fifty years and yours is the first thank you letter I ever gotten from a student. Sometimes I wonder what I did with my life. I will read and reread your letter until I die". Ironically she was the most liked and talked about at class reunions, but NO BODY TOLD HER THAT. Real Christians like Paul knew the need of appreciation for people. He wrote: "I make mention of you always in prayers". Romans 1:9. "Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all saints, do not cease to give thanks for you". Ephesians 1:15-16. Thank you for the saints and leaders who passed away and is with Jesus who led us in the faith and truth. Thank you, senior saints, for generation of prayer and forest clearing. Thank you, Sunday School teachers for the countless Sunday School lessons, prepared and delivered with tenderness, Thank you Missionaries, for your bravery in sharing the timeless truth in a foreign country in spite of unpleasant living conditions. Thank you pastors and preachers, you thought we were not listening, but we were. Your stubborn sowing of God's seed is bearing fruits. Thank you great prophets who are the voices of God who is helping us to have hope and navigate in the midst of doom and gloom news. Hey, don't wait to say thank you until they are in the casket when they cannot hear!! Well, am I right???