The week we give thanks

Wikipedia informed me that :
Thanksgiving Day, currently celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863. Thanksgiving was historically a religious observation to give thanks to God.
The event that Americans commonly call the first Thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony survive their first brutal winter in New England. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Native Americans.
The feast consisted of fish (cod, eels, and bass) and shellfish (clams, lobster, and mussels), wild fowl (ducks, geese, swans, and turkey), venison, berries and fruit, vegetables (peas, pumpkin, beetroot and possibly, wild or cultivated onion), harvest grains (barley and wheat), and the Three Sisters: beans, dried Indian maize or corn, and squash.

How interesting that most of us who celebrate with family and friends turned this historic event into one of being grateful for the people who surround us with love, who we care about, as well as being healthy under a roof. 
I started thinking and realized that many of our Jewish Holidays are directly connected to giving thanks..We give thanks for the miracle of the oil (Hanukkah). We are thankful for being freed from slavery (Passover). We give thanks for the fall harvest (Sukkot) to give some examples..

Giving thanks is part of a process. We have to be able to seek inside us, connect with our emotions and come to the conclusion that there are positive things in our lives.
We tend to complain every day about all the things that make us unhappy; I don't know the reason why, but we seem to be prone to finding the negative at such a speed that we forget that every situation has a positive outcome..something we can learn from it. Maybe we learn to be thankful for those negative situations as well?

My wish is that this "Thanks-giving" celebration  gets stuck on us so we can find ourselves thinking every week of the  people and things we are thankful for in our lives..Now, the best part of it is to let them know! Don't keep it to yourself. We create change while communicating.

Hineh ma tov uma na'im
Shevet achim gam yachad.
How good and pleasant it is
For brothers & sisters to sit together.

Happy Thanksgiving!