Goodness

It's Thanksgiving Day.

I'm cooking.

The fireplace is on.

Our house is full of family.

It's a good kind of day.

Later, we'll feast.

 

Aside from a table full of food and people we love, today as you look around the room, you'll also see this:

 

 

It's our Thankful Tree.  Fashioned from grocery sacks, we put it up on the wall on November 1st.  Almost everyday since we've been making it a habit to record one thing each day for which we are grateful.  It's really just a reflection of our days together (that says "stolen gum" - Joey):

 

(it snowed for the first time this month,)

 

 

those we love,

 

this says Boby (aka Bobby, aka Joey's pronunciation of baby, meaning Tikvah) -Joey, and Theia wrote it for him,

 

the things that are special to us:

 

we've never known how special a snow blower could be until we lived in Bismarck,

 

and the one who makes true happiness, joy, and gratitude possible: 

 

Jesus.  Only Jesus. 

 

All thanks to Him alone.

 

from Psalm 100:

Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth.

Serve the Lord with gladness;

Come before Him with joyful singing.

Know that the Lord Himself is God;

It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;

We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Enter His gates with thanksgiving,

And His courts with praise.

Give thanks to Him; bless His name.

For the Lord is good;

His lovingkindness is everlasting,

And His faithfulness to all generations.

 

 

The Lord Truly is Good.

Happy Thanksgiving from our house to yours.