Thanksgiving!
It gives each a sense of belonging…heritage…bonding…connecting…future…continuity. Building. Taking time. Being there for each other, bonding together for posterity.
No, no subject is taboo. We’re trying to cram into 24 hours enough love and gratitude for each other for the next 364 days. All our lives are so busy, so caught up in the urgent, little time left for the …important!
Half century of tradition…a leveler, as we cling to each other in this crazy time before the Lord returns.
Family…made up like our country, with all religions (Noor’s from Indonesia), politics--Republican Harding, Democrat David, with different ideas of how things should be done--from electing a president to turkey carving--but with a resolve that we always have at Thanksgiving, differences are a small matter in life and what is alive--love, that need to be needed, loved, wanted and appreciated--is the impacting glue.
When we return to reality Monday morning, the world will still be there waiting for us. Bet we’ll be able to face it refreshed and revitalized, with a lot of happy family memories that will warm the heart for another year, for a lifetime.
We’re thankful for family, food, fun, frivolity, freedom and the future. We don’t know what the future holds, but we know Who holds the future. For that we’re doubly joyful.
We are grateful to you…reading this…that our lives touched today.
If you are going through the sadness of having empty places at your Thanksgiving table, whether from Katrina, Rita, or a freak hanging like one of our friends experienced because of her child’s accident from the “pass-out” game, put their chairs there anyway.
Mother said softly, “get a vision of Jesus sitting at your table. He’s telling you of all the good things He prepared for you and them in that gold-paved city--walls of jasper-that beautiful quartz with nature’s autumn colors of reddish-brown and yellow jewels, clear as crystal. Your chandelier shines with God’s glory--its brilliance is like a precious jewel. The city of pure gold, pure as glass, decorated with every kind of precious stone, sapphire, emerald, sardonyx, topaz, amethyst and pearls. We can have such gratitude that there’ll be no tears, no sorrow in Heaven as families gather Thankful for the best homecoming”.
It’s POSSIBLE!
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Copyright Dr. Bonnie Libhart October 2010
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