We have Thanksgiving Day. Should be also have a Blessgiving Day?
There is a difference. Thanks focuses on our feelings of gratitude. It is usually something that is a response to good done to us or for us. It is a good thing and there isn’t enough of it.
Blessing in the Bible is a word that comes from the Greek for good words. We get our English word eulogy from it. That is where someone will say a bunch of good things about the deceased. When we bless God we do not wish good things on Him, we say good things about Him. Praise might be a synonym.
So Thanksgiving could be a day when believers are grateful for what God has done. Blessgiving could be a day where we praise Him for what He is.
It would be hard to get it on next years calendar at this point.
homo unius libri
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