#givethanks - Thursday, November 24, 2022 Thanksgiving Day
I’m Thankful For Holidays Traditions
Happy Thanksgiving!!
I hope you had a tasty meal and a good and uplifting day today. Thanksgiving is a day to reconnect with lost
or wayward family members and friends. It
is a day to offer our thanks to those we love and rely on. It is a day to offer thanks to the Lord God
of Hosts for His influence in our lives.
We had dinner with our son and his family. I spent the morning and early afternoon
trying to be a help to my wife as she prepared dishes of food for our meal. We had what I would call a typical fare for
the holiday. My son prepared the turkey. We had mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing,
candied yams, cranberry and jello salad, string bean casserole, rolls, shrimp, baked
sausage and mushroom hors d'oeuvres and crackers with cream cheese and pepper
jelly as an appetizer. Later we had pumpkin pie, chocolate pie, lemon meringue pie and pumpkin/cranberry crème brûlée. I offered the thanksgiving prayer to bless
the food and give thanks for it; during the prayer I asked God to bless the
people of the world to seek for peace and asked God to have patience with us. Afterward we played Wii bowling and chatted
about many things.
I enjoyed the day, having traditional food, following the
tradition of family time together, offering our thanks to the Lord and relaxing
together. We’ve followed this tradition each
year and I love doing it this way… it is
a tranquil tradition that I feel brings normalcy to my life. I am thankful to my wife for all she does to
make it happen. I am thankful for my son
and daughter-in-law for the similar efforts they made to make our day a
success. I miss having our daughter and
her family with us at these times, but we understand their need to be where
they are.
Family traditions can be motivators to a family to keep in touch
with each other, to put themselves out there for the good of family unity and
harmony. I pray that everyone can have
the experience of family love, acceptance, unity and harmony while in this earthly
state.
Just so everybody knows, I didn't make ALL of that food! Jesse and Karina made the pumpkin pie and crème brulee, the stuffed mushrooms, the cream cheese and jelly appetizer, and the rolls as well as the turkey. That great dinner wouldn't have been nearly as good if they didn't make all that good food! It was a really nice Thanksgiving this year! We missed Travis, Christie, Reed, Harvey and Kota, though!
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