It’s Thanksgiving: a time when we pause and thank God for our blessings and faithfulness. A person could live a 1000 lifetimes without seeing all that the prophet Daniel saw. Taken from his home as a young boy to Babylon, he had lived his years in exile serving the world’s most powerful men in an age of empires. In Daniel 9, the aging prophet reflects on his life and is reminded of something that we all need to remember: God is in control, and because of this, we find “gratitude in God’s certitude."