As we all know saints and masters are shining examples of being givers. They want nothing for themselves as they have every thing they need. They are one with God and source all bliss and love. When we have love what else can be compared to it? In today's world love has lost its significance and people take pleasure only by indulging in materialistic wealth. This reminds me if thanksgiving, where they celebrate by giving each other gifts.
Thanksgiving is celebrated at the end of November. It is a special day devoted to giving thanks for the good things in life and have dinners with kith and kin. But whatever little bit I have understood here is that it all began with newly arrived people from Europe who landed in US and gave thanks to the native Americans for their help. Over the period of time Thanksgiving has come to be symbolized as giving thanks for anything in our lives for which we are grateful.
It may kindly be noted that yet times when we give thanks it may be because we received something from some one. We might have received something from our family, our friends, our teachers, our community or our country. We may also give thanks to God for his grace on us. Yet most of these forms of thanks are for what we have received. I personally feel there is another way to show appreciation and all that is not only by thanking but by giving what's ours. When we give thanks it is mostly for what we have received or taken. If we really want to show appreciation for what we have received we can express it by giving it to others. It is one way of passing on the goodness of what we have received. In this way we are not only takers but we also become givers. This form of "Thanksgiving" has some greater connotation, not only materialistic in my view.