I am writing this on Thanksgiving Day, 2022. For me, today is very much like any other day, the only real difference being that I’ve received and sent quite a few “Happy Thanksgiving “ wishes to friends and family. I’m grateful for those very special people in my life.🙏🏽
This is the first Thanksgiving in many years that it’s just my husband and me and our pups. It’s currently raining quite hard, and the only sound heard inside the RV is the white noise whirring from the dehumidifier. Its quiet. It’s peaceful. I’m happy.🙏🏽
I’m grateful that I’ve got nowhere to go today.🙏🏽 The windy country roads around here are challenging enough in good conditions, let alone rainy ones. Days like today are a good reason to stay inside and write, or read, or knit—all of which I’ll probably do today.🙏🏽 And drink hot chocolate while doing so.🙏🏽
And when dinner time comes, we won’t have turkey. Instead, it’ll be comfort food of some sort. I’ve got nothing particular in mind; I just know we’ve got plenty of food, and that we’ve always eaten well.🙏🏽 I’m free of any expectation, as far as food is concerned.🙏🏽 What a blessing it is to know that everything will fall perfectly into place, somehow, someway.🙏🏽
I’m especially grateful for a reminder received earlier this morning from a certain friend: the blessing of sobriety this holiday. 🙏🏽 I admonished myself for forgetting to include that in my blessings, but I’m grateful that not drinking has become such a way of life, I hardly ever think about it anymore.🙏🏽 Still, I never want to forget how bad things used to be because of my behavior; that very unpleasant thought helps keep me sober.🙏🏽
The practice of daily gratitude can make every day Thanksgiving, because there’s ALWAYS something to be thankful for!🙏🏽
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. ~Colossians 2:6-7
