Tomorrow, many of us will sit around tables with family and friends, grateful for the blessings we’ve lived and the people who helped shape who we are. Thanksgiving invites us to pause. But it also invites us to look outward, to turn gratitude into something that moves beyond ourselves.
When Rob Adams saw a stocked fridge for the first time as a child, he saw more than food. He saw opportunity. He wasn’t thinking about himself. He was envisioning how to bring benefit to the lives of others.
As he explains in our first episode of You Are What You Give, the work that Thanksgiving Heroes does each year isn’t only about the families receiving meals. And it isn’t limited to the volunteers delivering them.
It’s about the space created between them, the human moment when two people step into a shared experience of dignity, commitment, and appreciation.
That space is where giving grows above and beyond greeting cards and holiday wishes. It’s relationship. It’s the exchange of presence and purpose between people who realize they matter to one another.
Giving is about looking beyond ourselves, beyond our place, and beyond our time.
It’s about creating a world that will continue to matter long after we’re gone.
So as Thanksgiving begins, here’s a question to carry with you:
Who helped shape the person you are today, and how might your gratitude become something you give forward?
Because gratitude that stays inside us is the first step to a life worth giving.
Wishing you and those you love a meaningful Thanksgiving.
Avi