Thanksgiving Prep

I spent today at the school celebrating Thanksgiving with my children. (There are no pictures because I have been having technical issues with my camera for the last couple of weeks. Thankfully, I think I worked them out today!)

Tomorrow I will brine two turkeys, set up tables, press table cloths, make place cards with verses about thankfulness with the assistance of my three favorite little people. I am not stressed out. I am joyful. I am looking forward to having both sides of the family join us in our home Thursday.

I LOVE the simplicity of Thanksgiving. I love that marketing people have not found a way to make it all about buying things. Instead it is about being together and celebrating the gifts in our life. Thanksgiving is perspective. It is a time to purposefully hit the pause button and breathe deep and reflect on how we have been blessed. God is faithful and we get too busy to notice.

I also love the holiday because it is my yearly reminder of the joy we had as we announced our pregnancy six years ago. We didn't even know it was multiples. An infertility diagnosis had led us to 'sow in tears' but we were truly able to 'reap in joy' and experience the harvest of 'armloads of blessings' mentioned in Psalm 126.

It seemed like a dream, too good to be true, when God returned Zion's exiles.
We laughed, we sang, we couldn't believe our good fortune.
We were the talk of the nations— "God was wonderful to them!"
God was wonderful to us; we are one happy people.
And now, God, do it again—bring rains to our drought-stricken lives
So those who planted their crops in despair will shout hurrahs at the harvest,
So those who went off with heavy hearts will come home laughing, with armloads of blessing. -Psalm 126 (The Message)

I didn't even realized until tonight when I looked up the reference for this post that it is called "a Pilgrim song." How appropriate!

May we rejoice in the blessings of today...and those of the past that remind us of the faithfulness of our God through the ages.