Thanks to God, my list of blessings goes on and on

Americans have so much to thank God for. Yes, we thank the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that is recorded in the Holy Bible. No other god.

The same Holy God the Pilgrims knelt and thanked when the Mayflower landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620.

He is the one who has given us the good soil, marvelous rain and beautiful sun. Plenty of delicious food to eat that gives us strength to pray, play and work. We have enough food to even help feed the world.

We enjoy plenty of clean water to drink to keep us alive so we can take baths and attend church to worship this miraculous Creator.

I'm so thankful for my wonderful grandparents, who had to farm with horses, for their unwavering faith in God. I'm so thankful for my loving parents who raised nine children and faithfully took us to a spirit-filled church three times a week -- nine miles one way. I'm so thankful for my pastors preaching the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and staying faithful to their wives and families.

I'm so thankful for my lovely wife, Beverly, who has been faithful to me for more than 34 years -- even when I didn't know where we were going to live or eat the next day. It has been a fantastic, marvelous marriage. God blessed us with three children, a gifted, musical son-in-law, a beautiful daughter-in-law and three adorable grandchildren. I thank the Lord they all live nearby so I can spoil them. (Would you like to see their pictures?)

I'm so thankful to live in Greeley, write these letters and pastor at Glad Tidings Church. I'm so grateful for the awesome, manifest presence of Almighty God that we experienced in every service this past year. While we worship without a complete set program, the Holy Spirit powerfully touches us with the glory of God. We're so glad to be forgiven and filled with the incredible love, joy and wonderful peace of Jesus.

We're so excited about missing hell and going to heaven that we look forward to praising the Lord. Jesus told us to worship Him in spirit and in truth and with the assistance of musical instruments -- we enjoy obeying. We're so thankful for salvation and the freedom that Jesus purchased for us on the cross that we want everyone to experience it.

I'm so thankful Jesus is coming back at any moment to take us home. I can hardly wait to sit down at His Thanksgiving table with my grandparents, my parents, relatives and friends from all over the world. Now, that will be a meal. That will be a celebration that will never end. Thank you, Jesus!

Finally, we're so grateful to our wonderful brave men and women who serve in the Air Force, Army, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard and all the guard units that give us our freedoms as Americans. These strong soldiers have even given freedom to boys and girls of other countries. We're eternally grateful for those who have given their limbs and eyes and to those who have given the ultimate sacrifice, their lives. We honor them. We salute them. May God bless, protect and bring them home safe and soon.

David Meek is pastor of Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church in Greeley.