It was the week before Thanksgiving and we were anything but thankful. Everything that could go wrong had, it seemed. We were broke, deep in debt, stuck in a bad job, a thousand miles from home and expecting our second child at any time. Mother came out to help and together we cooked a turkey […]
5 THANKSGIVING PSALMS TO PRAY THIS WEEK
If the stores in our area are anything to go by, Thanksgiving is going the way of the pilgrims. We’re too busy, it seems, to linger in gratitude when there’s so much out there to get. X-mas trees (I can’t call them “Christmas”) appeared the afternoon of Halloween, and Thanksgiving’s treated as a signpost for […]
THANKS-GIVING, THE DOOR TO HAPPY HOLIDAYS
An “emotional survival guide” for the holidays showed up on my facebook feed the other day, a sad reminder that not everyone has fun around the Christmas dinner table. Why is it that those we love have the most power to hurt us? People gather at the holidays, hoping for the best. Then out come […]
GIVING THANKS IN GOOD TIMES AND IN BAD
Each year as Thanksgiving approaches and I start to review all my blessings, I stumble on this from St. Paul: “In everything give thanks.” (1 Thess. 5:18). Everything? You’ve got to be kidding me. When things go wrong, I’m supposed to give thanks? When my husband is laid off and no jobs are in sight? […]
