Time To Give Thanks
Posted on Thursday, November 27th, 2008
I am so fortunate. I’m spending Thanksgiving this year with my family of origin in Wisconsin. I’m going to miss my little family here, but they understand that sometimes you just gotta go home. I’ve got my supply of pictures of the grandkids, so will have their little smiles to warm me.
Thanksgiving never changes much in my family. Hunting season is always the center of the activity with the hunters coming and going at all hours. Some football game is usually on a TV somewhere in the house. Everybody starts arriving with baskets full of food early in the afternoon and dinner is sometime after dark. There are a couple tables scattered throughout the house to fit the growing family and just about every bowl, plate, and serving platter is used for this one meal.
I suspect that this year will be very much like the years before. We’ll gather to hunt, gather to cook, and gather to eat. It’s what families do all across America on Thanksgiving day. We express our thanks for the people we have at the table, people who are living far away, and especially for the people who have gone on before us to set a table in Heaven, awaiting our arrival. We laugh a little and we cry a little.
Our family is big and boisterous and gentle and silly and warm and expanding and changing. Every Thanksgiving I give thanks for my family, the old and young and near and far. I’m sad for the people we have lost and I rejoice in the people we have gained. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
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