Traveling Through Thanksgiving

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(inspiration and logo from Holy Experience)

Begin by thanking Him for some little thing,

and then go on, day by day, adding to your subjects of praise;

thus you will find their numbers grow wonderfully;

and, in the same proportion,

will your subjects of murmuring and complaining diminish,

until you see in everything some cause for thanksgiving.

~ Priscilla Maurice

So true! I started this journey and continue down a path of joys much greater than I could have expected. Around another bend in the road and everyday blessings come into view...

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Continuing to enjoy my new love for cooking

with a new recipe for which I did not have enough soy sauce,

BUT scrounging through the pantry,

there was just enough left-over soy sauce packets from Chinese take-out

for what I needed.

Sometimes,

just gathering what we think are just the scraps from life

is just what we need,

it is enough.

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Hearing my seven year old's laughter

and seeing his dancing eyes

as he reads out loud to me about a mischievous monkey

that reminds me a lot of him.

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Relief.

I'm finishing up dinner

LATE (it's almost 7:00!)

and daughter enters the kitchen

just as I am pulling out the corn on the cob from the fridge saying,

"OOHH! Corn on the cob! I love shucking corn. May I?"

May you?! YES!

And I... stop to breathe.

Suddenly, the late time doesn't matter.

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The first day to turn off the AC

and open up all the windows.

Fresh breezes and naturally scented air

fill our house.

What a pleasure.

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Peeling sweet potatoes as Bach plays in the background.

You haven't really peeled potatoes

until you've done it with Mr. Bach. ;)

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Twelve year old daughter draws a cross

in her sweet potatoes at dinner

and asks me to take a picture.

Jesus just keeps showing up in our lives

in the most unusual and most mundane ways!

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Can I say that if I did love things,

I would love my tumbler?

It goes everywhere I go

around the house and in the car...

Ice water, the drink of champions!

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Pretty things

rescued from a college dumpster

after seniors graduated and left campus

like this bright electric blue cardigan

with shell button.

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Sink full of messy dishes yet to be cleaned

towards the end of a tiring day

means that tummies are full of yummies

in a world where 25,000 people die daily from hunger

even though there is enough food to feed the entire world.

What is a cause of grumbling becomes a cause of gratitude.

What is ugly is beautiful.

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It's gone!

I open the pantry to find the recycling bin

has already been taken to the curb by my husband.

That's almost as good as flowers and chocolate!

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Teasing words of seven year old brother to twelve year old sister:

"So, how would you like to mow the lawn?"

Her reply:

"If I did it for the glory of God,

I would learn to enjoy it."

Wow. Truer words were never spoken.

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The ability to laugh out loud at myself.

In the middle of a day when I was befuddled

by the tyranny of my to do list,

at wit's end to know what to do next, I...

alphabetized our videos.

You know, that incredibly important,

not to mention urgent,

task that must be done before all others!

I managed to stop myself before doing them all

and have a good giggle at my creative combination of

procrastination and compulsivity.

(Tell me you've done this kind of thing, too, please!)

Such is one page of the travel log of those in the gratitude community.

Join the journey here. Happy trails!

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