Thursday, November 26, 2009

A Thanksgiving to remember, I hope…

I am up early today -Thanksgiving Day- still not feeling well, but thankfully no flu. First thing I put the turkey giblets on the stove to boil; I want to fill the house with the aroma of cooking.

 

A thought streaks through my mind, so many celebrations and special moments of life involve food. I never wondered this next thought before… Does hunger rob the poor of celebration too?

 

Later today I will sit around a grand table with family, friends and a new couple in town and we will laugh, tell stories, eat and enjoy life. Rice and beans week seems so long ago. And yet there is in me a continuing appreciation for what I have been given (amazing isn't it, what a little sacrifice can do in one's soul)… family, health, education, riches, employment, faith, the list seems endless. I have a feeling that this will translate into a different feel for me at the table today. I pray it translates into a deeper thanksgiving… to God for His undeserved graciousness to me.

 

Words and thoughts continue to spill from my heart; I hope and pray too that with this deepened appreciation and thanksgiving is accompanied by a deeper understanding of the responsibility that comes with all these graces. "To whom much has been given," spoke Jesus, "much is required" (paraphrase of Luke 12:48).

 

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

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