Your Heart Doesn't Have to Break on Thanksgiving

📖 Video Summary
This Thanksgiving message acknowledges both the joy and the pain of the season, offering comfort and encouragement whether your heart is overflowing or experiencing grief. It's a reminder that dealing with grief is part of the holidays for many, and we can all find ways to give thanks and cope with holiday stress relief. This video supports your spiritual, emotional and mental health during this time.

Thanksgiving can be beautiful but it can also be deeply painful.
Whether you’re full of gratitude or quietly grieving, this message is for you.

This faceless, scripture-led reflection walks through Psalm 107, Lamentations 3, and 1 Thessalonians 5:18, offering hope for hearts that are praising and hearts that are carrying loss.
This is a gentle Thanksgiving message for the grateful and the grieving scripture to meet you where you are.

🕒 Timestamps
00:00:00 — Intro
00:00:46 — The Bridge to Scripture
00:01:15 — The Three Scriptures
00:04:36 — Conclusion
00:05:12 — CTA & Prayer

💡 3 Ways to Find HOPE on a Painful Thanksgiving
Anchoring your emotions in truth
Finding gratitude even in grief
Letting scripture carry what your heart cannot

✝️ Key Scriptures
Psalm 107 — Let the redeemed of the Lord say so
Lamentations — His mercies are new every morning
1 Thessalonians 5:18 — In everything give thanks

💬 Community Invitation
If this word ministers to you, please like and share it to bless someone else.
Comment either:
“one thing I’m thankful for” or “prayer request”
to connect with The Open Table community.

🙌 You Are Not Alone
Whether you’re celebrating with joy or sitting with sorrow
You are seen, you are loved, and you are never alone.
There’s always room at The Open Table.

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