Moses told his father-in-law about everything the Lord had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake and about all the hardships they had met along the way and how the Lord had saved them.

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭18‬:‭8‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Family meetings were once a place to pass on historic accounts of God’s mercies. Thankfulness was a way of life taught generation to generation.

Thanksgiving was an everyday celebration.

Today, the family has become a shallow navigation to circumvent differences and preserve peace at all costs, at least for the duration of a shared meal.

What was once a safe harbor of shared beliefs is now a smoldering set of competing ideas too easily raked into a raging fire capable of destroying the very essence of community.

And it took all of two or three generations to do.

The enemy strikes where it hurts most.

Pray for a return to safe harbors and common foundations of shared beliefs based on the one true God who unites us for his glory.

Pray for families, yours, mine, and ours, and a return to the thankfulness of unity.