Know what happens if you put a Duck in your Armpit?

I do.

Sadly, not from experience.

My Brother, Jesse, is in his second year of Forestry at The Hugh John Fleming Center in Fredericton. This last week they have been banding ducks. Last night Jesse was explaining how easy ducks are to band because they are so visual. If they can't see, they can't function.

All you have to do is put the duck's head in your arm pit, making it impossible for them to see what's happening and then they just give up and go limp. Apparently if you band at night all you have to do is flip them over...cuz it's dark.

On this Thanksgiving weekend, when I'm attempting to be more thankful than usual, I am thankful to be unlike a duck.

God has built us differently. Even if we can't see, we can still function. It might not be smooth, but it's possible. The same holds true spiritually. Even when we've let Satan stuff us in his metaphorical armpit, though it's dark and kinda stinky, we don't need to give up and go limp.

So this Thanksgiving I'm thinking about Victory. Christ's victory over the darkness, over sin, over the devil.

1 Corinthians 15:54b-58

"Death has been swallowed up in victory."

"Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?"

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to
God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you.
Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your
labor in the Lord is not in vain.

I am thankful for Christ's victory over the Armpit!