You're listening to the Jeff Caven Show. Episode 41, thankful people, are attractive people.

Hey, I'm Jeff Cavens. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible?

All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general.

It's the Jeff Kaven Show.

Welcome to the show in this very special show during Thanksgiving week.

If you're listening to the show other than

Thanksgiving well we're talking about Thanksgiving this week really a topic that's

so central to our lives and as we as we get further into the actual celebration of

Thanksgiving in our country, I'm afraid that so often like Christmas and

Easter and other holidays that it's lost, It's lost and it kind of turns into a buying spree and when people think

about Thanksgiving and our culture today they think about about Black Friday, you know, the day after when everybody is going to go shopping.

This year the marketing gurus have done one better.

They have gray November, meaning that we have been celebrating Thanksgiving by buying stuff all this month.

Well, anyway, we're going to talk about the real meaning of Thanksgiving this week,

and I want to thank you, starting off, no pun intended, by I want to thank you by for writing me and telling me about what you think of the show and how it has helped you really

encouraging and I encourage you to go to iTunes and rank the show leave some

some comments it does a lot for the algorithms to get Catholic radio shows out there where they can help people.

So when people search for topics and so forth, the show ranks high and people have a chance to hear the gospel rather quickly.

Well we're going to talk about Thanksgiving today and I'm excited about this

because of all the topics in my life that I study I would have to say that Thanksgiving is one of the top five topics.

If you were to go into my library you would see a number of topics. I like to study simplicity. I like to study suffering. I like to study love. I like to study discipleship. The fifth one is I love to study Thanksgiving and we've done some

shows in the past on Thanksgiving but today we're going to focus on on the

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