Our Thanksgiving, 2025
- S.K. Caraway
- 4 days ago
- 3 min read
As we celebrate Thanksgiving, I wanted to take the time to write about the volatile and most challenging year we Believers have faced. Our values and beliefs have been tested, questioned, debated, refuted, and defended with great fervor. Now with *Christian Nationalist beliefs running rampart many of us have questioned both their, and our own systems of belief. The discourse has divided many relationships, created heated dialog, and in some saddened incidents, adhered to violence through a political theater. But whether you adhere to this belief system or not, we Believers know and understand the words and work of Jesus Christ, and what we are called to do. It is my sincere prayer that given the current circumstances, each of our lives whether touched, changed or appreciated we know, have learned or will learn...
To empathize another's misfortune. Understanding that our desires to see someone else suffer can also reach through our own front doors.
Appreciate democracy. Appreciating democracy involves recognizing its core values and actively participating in civic life to sustain it. Democracy provides for fundamental freedoms, equality, peace, prosperity, and human dignity, which are worth celebrating and protecting.
Expect more from our government leaders. Expecting more from government leaders means demanding responsiveness, effectiveness, and integrity, focusing on delivering results for citizens in areas like healthcare, economy, and services, rather than just political rhetoric, with a push for transparency and competence to rebuild declining public trust in institutions. Citizens increasingly expect government to operate with modern efficiency, similar to the private sector, tackling complex problems with innovative solutions, fostering accountability, and demonstrating ethical conduct, although opinions vary widely on government's proper role.
Make a new friend outside of our race, ethnicity or culture. This is a great goal for fostering connections and broadening your perspectives. The process starts by actively seeking out diverse environments and engaging with an open and respectful attitude.
The importance of each of us to everyone's existence. We each in some form or another touch each other's lives, whether it's the farmer or farm worker who picks and processes our food, to the construction workers who build our infrastructures, homes, and other functions. Remember the essential workers including our healthcare professionals, to our government leaders who reflect our morals and values.
Become more generous, serving, and aware in our local communities. Start small by checking on neighbors, supporting local businesses, and picking up trash, then scale up by volunteering skills (tutoring, mentoring, teaching) or time (food banks, clean-ups), donating blood/items, participating in local governance, and organizing community connection events to build trust and strengthen connections in your community.
These should be the modern tenets of every Believer around the world. Wish no hurt, harm, or danger to any living creature or human. Serve your community and others, support and pray for leaders who reflect our values and beliefs and only utilize those ideologies for the betterment and respect of all. Happy Thanksgiving Believers...
S.K. Caraway, Founder/Director/CEO
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not become partners with them; for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. ..
*A person who believes that a nation's identity, laws, and public policies should be distinctively Christian. This ideology believes its government has a responsibility to create a Christian society and enforce Christian rules and behaviors. Christian nationalism is a political ideology, not just a religious one, that promotes the merger of old testament Christianity with the state and can be found in varying degrees in different countries.
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