Thanksgiving reminder

All too often people tend to focus on what is lacking in their lives: money, a fancy car, respect or a nicer home. In short there is a lot of complaining in this world. Whining and belly aching do little to instill change or to get you the things you want. It will just serve you up a nice tension headache and take your focus off all the blessings you have in your life. Worse yet, your complaining just might be contagious and could cause others to join in the chorus-- thus causing a national migraine.

This is why I love Thanksgiving Day. It is the one day of the year when people are supposed to forget about their desires and afflictions and focus on their blessings. It is also the one day when families are practically mandated to sit down for dinner and look at one another. Sometimes people are so busy, they don’t stop to look and listen. If we did, maybe there would be less complaining and more understanding. Maybe there would be more reasons to love and celebrate the gifts that we have. Sometimes it is easy to forget that the most precious gifts aren’t material.
You can’t buy them. Well, you can’t buy authentic ones-- friends and family. But it is also strange that many of us often take these most precious gifts for granted. Fortunately, true friends and family are also the most forgiving. They are the shoulders we cry on when things go wrong, the ears we vent to when we are really mad and the eyes we smile at when things are just right.

May today be a “just right kind of day.”

I am blessed to live a small, quaint community that is relatively safe and that pulls together during times of need. I am blessed to have a family that cherishes me even when I am not so charitable or forgiving. I am blessed to be able to complain and to want and to celebrate my triumphs in life. I am blessed to have family and friends and a day that celebrates them all.