Thanksgiving 2010

For several years I have longed for a meaningful, traditional Thanksgiving meal. You know around a table set with china, the kids all dressed well, speaking of our blessings for the past year and thanking God for his grace to bestow them on us. Well, that's not quite the way we celebrate it with the family. But this year, I finally realized that we are indeed, celebrating it in a traditional way. The first Thanksgiving included days of feasting, fun and games between the Pilgrims and the Indians who had helped them survive that first year. The fact that we shoot guns, bows and arrows, hit golf balls and play football is all in keeping with the spirit of the first Thanksgiving. In our little family, we do spend time writing down a particular blessing from the year, reading it aloud, placing it in our blessing box, reading all the previous years' blessings in the box, and then thanking God for his goodness and grace. All the pieces are there. Once I figured this out, I had the most enjoyable Thanksgiving in many years.

A couple of Thanksgiving Indians - Running Bear and Little Raindrop