Today is Thanksgiving which is hopefully a day known more for thankfulness and gratitude than for gorging ourselves on food. I love the traditions and the wonderful memories of a house full of relatives and friends packed with the aroma of cooking and baking. I think it is the only time in late fall that we run the air conditioner due to the heat generated by cookers, ovens, stoves, and the hot air coming from a lot of boisterous conversations!! :) For me, I still feel just an itsy-bitsy twinge of sadness "way down inside" that all these childhood memories are just that...memories...as those days past will never be repeated. My grandparents are no longer with us meaning that "the family"...you know...the uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers and sisters" hardly ever get together any more for the big feast. Now, nine years in the making, the traditions are now with my family. It is just the five of us and we celebrate John 10:10, "I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." I have been blessed with "more abundance" than can be measured. I am thankful to God for His gifts of my family...each one that you see in the picture that accompanies this article...from left to right...Jabin, Jennalyn, and Tristian. Our precious children who will, one day, take what we are doing now as a family and pass it on into the future to their children as "family traditions." So, I leave you with some of Colossians 3:15, by saying "Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts...and be thankful!"
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