What a surprise!

At church on Sunday, our Pastor told us about a survey which said 3 out of 5 people HATE Thanksgiving. Why, you ask? Not because of the cooking, the hosting, the shopping or the food. It’s because they hate having to say what they are grateful for around the table. That’s a surprise to me.

I can understand feeling “forced” in the moment to think of something original. Nobody likes that feeling. But surely, we can all think of something we are grateful to God for on Thanksgiving Day.

This season of daily giving thanks has proved so inspiring to me. For the first time, my husband and I have a jar FULL of pieces of paper with multiple thanks from that day written on them. I’m pretty sure we did this when our kids were little in some fashion but it’s been such a great exercise to do it just with my husband. On Wednesday night when it’s just the 2 of us here for dinner, we are going to read all of them. Then on Thanksgiving Day when we have our company for dinner, we will already be prepared with our favorite to share around the table.

“Whoa, Nellie!” to all the Christmas people who can hardly wait to decorate for Christmas (I’m one of those people!). Thanksgiving is in 2 days. Then let the gates open for all things Christmas!