HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Today is the day before Thanksgiving, a busy day for most home-makers, but a great time to put into words what we are thankful for.  So, I'm taking this day and tomorrow off from encapsulating the story of Mary and Joseph in TWO FROM GALILEE by Marjorie Holmes.  Let  me list, instead, a small portion of that which keeps me grateful.


I am grateful for Jerry, my husband of 60 plus years and my four children- Peg, Lynn, Mitch and jean, for their spouses and all 10 grandchildren and their spouses plus our one little great-grand-daughter, Scarlet.


I am grateful for our country, perhaps imperfect, but yet one of the best in the world.


I am grateful for the church we love for it is the persons within  that make the church.


I am grateful for the family in which I married, and although Jerry's parents are no longer alive, I am truly grateful for my memories of them.


I am grateful for my own parents, now long gone, and for my brother, Bob, who has passed, and my two sisters, Shirley and Judy, and also each of their families.


I am grateful that Jerry and I were able to travel to foreign parts of the world over the years.


Most of all I am grateful to have  found God.  No, He was not lost but I was!  God revealed to me His Son, the Christ who died for the sinfulness I carried so long in my memories.  I had no memory of that which might have required jail-time!  Yet, I had put myself in my own internal jail, never forgetting the antics of a strong-willed child which needed forgiveness and forgetting.  Through Christ's death on the Cross I was forgiven and through His merciful love I have forgotten.  Therefore, I am filled with gratitude today and always.


I am also grateful for a day like Thanksgiving because we can meet as a family, those of us nearby , and share our gratitude with one another.


How blessed I am, too, to have a moment in time today to express my thanks, hoping I will continue to always be thankful for life itself.


Happy Thanksgiving---now and always--to those of you who are reading this today!  We'll take up TWO FOR GALIEE again on Friday, God willing!


Love to all,


JOinMN