Life always gets interesting when we enter the fall/winter holiday season…especially in the church. The normally busy process of preparing worship services week to week gets taken up a couple of notches as we begin to prepare for the plethora of extra services that mark the beginning of the Liturgical Year and the end of the Calendar Year.
While it is necessary from a logistical standpoint to start getting ready for Advent and Christmas in October (or earlier if you are looking at drama productions and the like), I personally hate thinking of Christmas before we reach Thanksgiving. In fact, it’s probably one of my bigger pet peeves! Christmas is, of course, a wonderful holiday as we celebrate the birth of Christ. But as I look at our society and the whirlwind of advertising and decorating that we do from mid-October on, I see us becoming more and more ungrateful. Fortunately, while the retail market smoothly (and rapidly!!!) moves from Halloween straight to Christmas, we in the church take a little time to be thankful.
Our Thanksgiving Day worship service will be held this year at 10am on Thursday, November 27. As we only hold one service that day, we would like to make it representative of our overall worship climate. This means blending our traditional forms with some of our contemporary forms. If you attend First Trinity, let me know any thoughts you have about what this “blended” service could be like. If you do not attend First Trinity, maybe you know of some ways that Traditional and Contemporary forms have been blended successfully. Sue Brese – our Director of Traditional Worship – and I will be working to bring together a great time of worship.
Whatever your worship preference is, make sure you take regular time out this season – and not just on November 27th – to be grateful for the people and blessings that God has poured into your life. Maybe we can even show those marketing people a thing or two about happiness! 
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