Does Thanksgiving at your home resemble a Better Homes and Gardens feast?
Maybe, like us, it's closer to a Duck Dynasty free-for-all.
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Each Thanksgiving my husband, Jake, and I host an open house for people who'd spend the holiday alone.
One year we broke tradition and had a hot dog grill-out in the back yard. (Yeah! Thankful for fewer dishes to wash.)
Frigid Nebraska temperatures prompted us back
inside the following year. (Yeah! Thankful for heat.)
Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Day proclamation
read, "They are the gracious
gifts of the Most High God..."
Maybe this holiday it's hard to see
God's gifts. Perhaps you're grieving the loss of
loved ones, or struggling with illness. Maybe you feel alone.
If sorrow overshadows thankfulness,
here's some great news.
You can have a friend who sticks closer
than a brother. Proverbs 18:24
He'll never leave you. He'll never
forsake you. Hebrews 13:5
His name is Jesus.
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Wouldn't that bring a true day of thanksgiving?
By the way, if you drop your
beautifully roasted turkey, rinse it off and carry on. It'll make a
great story for next Thanksgiving.
