Today is Thanksgiving Day, my favorite day of the year! And I am simply very grateful to be celebrating this season of thanks here with my Honduras family, to be sitting here in the hosptial clinic as I write this, watching our beautiful children come in at out the doors.

At the same time, I am giving thanks for my family who is celebrating in the US, and one in Rwanda. May I never forget how blessed I am, whatever each day brings. To God be the glory for everything we have and do!

There is a very interesting New York Times article that my friend (Pauline, doctor and wife of Dr. Jay, our medical administrator here at CURE Honduras) sent me on the benefits of being grateful... let this be a reminder for us to live out 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 on a daily basis: "Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus."

As all of us from the US know, the day after Thanksgiving is the crazy day of shopping till you drop, and it just keeps going until Christmas is over, only to be repeated over again the next year! Well, my dear friends and all of you who love to shop and buy gifts for those you love, I want to give you some great gift ideas for this year, a gift that goes beyond just the person your buying for. Something that will help to change a person's life forever, something that will go towards helping a child hear about the purpose of Christmas and what it means for Christians who remember it as the time to celebrate the birth of Christ who came to bring redemption to a lost world.

The first place that you can check out these gifts is CURE's gift catalog, where you will find great gifts which will support a life-changing surgery for a disabled child at the same time.

Also, as I remember today how grateful I am to be a part of a loving family, I want to remember the millions of children in the world that do not have families to celebrate with this Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year. You can help bring an orphan into a loving family by purchasing your Christmas gift at Show Hope's gift catalog.

One last note- TONIGHT and Sunday night, CNN will be showing a documentary, "Common Dreams" about The Restavek Freedom Foundation in Haiti. I think you don't want to miss this!

CNN's COMMON DREAMS Thursday, November 24th at 9:00 PM PST Sunday, November 27th at 8:00 PM EST

Happy Thanksgiving, my friends around the world! What's one thing you're giving thanks for today?