Well it's the close of another Thanksgiving. I just got Isabelle to bed and William has been out like a light for a couple of hours. This year for dinner we had mom and dad, Daniel and his kids, Soung-Jo and Jee Hoon, and the four of us. I ate until I felt sick and then I ate a little bit more. The rest of the family came over in the evening and we played games and had lots and lots of dessert. It is a fact that when you let that many kids run wild in your house for that long, it will look like a bomb went off. Despite the fact that it will probably take me the better part of tomorrow recovering from today, it was a wonderful day today.
Thanksgiving has been my favorite holiday probably since I was an early teen. Of course I think Halloween is fun and who doesn't love Christmas? But there is just something about Thanksgiving that is so special. I wished that at this time of year I could slow down time. Thanksgiving seems to get overlooked more and more each year. I hope that the importance of this day could somehow find its way again in to our culture.
While we are grateful for the many, many conveniences in our lives I feel like this holiday is much more simple than that. It is gratitude for life itself. It is gratitude for the chance to learn of God and to follow Him. It is gratitude for the possibility to dream. It is gratitude for the freedom to work hard. And it is gratitude for those who choose to walk by our sides in life. I think those were the real things the pilgrims were thankful at the time of the first Thanksgiving. Everything else is just a bonus. I suppose I could make a list of everything I am grateful for, but it would be really long and just seem forced. When you start putting your love for your family in the same list as your love for hot chocolate it undermines the truly important things. I realize that is somewhat cynical, but its how I feel. I need to give credit where it is due on this most important day.
I need to say to my Heavenly Father and My Saviour Jesus Christ, Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to live and to do so with good health. Thank you for sending me to a country where I have the freedom to dream and the freedom to achieve those dreams. Thank you for putting me in places to meet wonderful and supportive friends. Thank you for giving me good parents who sacrificed and loved me. For giving me brothers and sisters to learn with and from. For sending me a loving and kind husband, and for trusting me enough to give me two of the most beautiful and loving children on Earth. And most of all, thank you for giving me the gospel and for the Saviours eternal sacrifice for me. I don't say it enough, but from the bottom of my heart...THANK YOU.
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