Everyone has a reason to be thankful, and while we should count our blessings each and every day, the purpose of Thanksgiving is a day that is set aside especially for reflecting on these blessings. It is a day when families and friends unite, and perhaps the only time that everyone is together in one place. The purpose of Thanksgiving is to share our homes, our bounty and to be thankful for the world in which we live in.

I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might. Ephesians  1:16-19