Thanksgiving is just around the corner. I don't know about you but our church has Thanksgiving Jubilee where we celebrate the weekend before Thanksgiving Day. We invite visiting preachers, singers, and community to come share a three day celebration with us. We have snacks each night and after services on Sunday morning we will have a Thanksgiving Dinner. By the time Thanksgiving Day comes around we are ready for hamburgers or something else besides turkey or ham.
But Thanksgiving, as much as we enjoy the food, is not about the food. It is time for us to recollect all the blessings the Lord has bestowed upon us. Being kind to others and letting them know how much we appreciate them for the things they have done for us down through our lives. There is so much to be thankful for in this day and time. When I think back I know the Lord has blessed me with a great and not-so-perfect family and friends. Even though diabetic I'm blessed with life. I'm blessed with the ability to touch, feel, see, taste, and hear. There is so much to be thankful for and so much we take for granted. Daily I wake up grateful I can still walk. Another day of life is not to be taken for granted. I know you have lost someone close to you as most of us have. I know you can look around you and see how blessed you are. Don't take things around you for granted. Be appreciative for everything about you. You are greatly made and the Lord wants to be a part of your life so he can bless you even more.
Mom and Dad are gone now. Family has drifted apart. There are no more Thanksgivings and Christmas' like there use to be. Family gatherings doesn't take place any more like they use to. We get so wrapped up in our own lives that we don't take time for each other. I miss cooking along side my mother. We talked about almost everything when we shared those moments together. We loved to share recipes and discuss how we could make some of the foods we served a little different. Every Thanksgiving Dad did what he did best. He laid on the couch and watched the Macy's Day Parade. He would drift into the kitchen during commercials and pinch a piece of ham (we served ham and turkey back then)or grab a roll. I would always arrive early to help out and by the time everyone else arrived the house was full of wonderful fragrances and children playing. It was very very good times. Then I would lag behind to help in the cleanup so Mom and I could chat even more.
Yes, we have much to be thankful for. I want the Lord to know how much I am thankful. I want my Heavenly Father to know I'm so very grateful for what he has done and still does for me. I thank my friends for being here for me when no one else was. I thank my family for loving me during my hard times and during my not-so-perfect times.
Thank you Father for what you mean to me and for dieing on the cross for my sins.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!
