Yesterday was a busy day, but a good busy. The kids and I joined 2 other home school families to do a Thanksgiving/Pilgrim study. We read a story, baked journey cakes, and made bonnets. I must admit.... doing things with other home schoolers usually scares me. Home schoolers can sometimes be a little weird. But these 2 families are great and we had a blast. Though my 2 older girls we the oldest there, but they seemed to really enjoy themselves. In fact we came away from our activities yesterday hoping to do more days like that.
We recently found out that we will not have any visitors at our home for Thanksgiving this year. One by one different parts of our family have backed out for various reasons. We all were a little bummed about being alone for Thanksgiving. I informed the kids that we would still have a "normal meal" with all the fixin's, I think that cheered them up a little.
We have mentioned a couple of times to each other about how we wish we could share Thanksgiving with someone in need. Maybe that means we share food, or our table, or our company with someone who is lonely.
Well, ironically yesterday hubby and our other pastors had a meeting with another local pastor, who mentioned a Thanksgiving Day Dinner. This dinner is one that there church does for anyone in need in the community. Our church has agreed to partner with this church and help out. When hubby informed me yesterday that he had "something" for us to do on Thanksgiving I never thought it would be this great. I am so excited that God is opening doors for us to serve. It is very cool to me how God has orchestrated our Thanksgiving Day so that we would be free to go and work at this church. We will take all the kids and be there as long as needed.
God I thank you for the wonderful day that you gave us yesterday. Thank you for giving us a wonderful home school experience to share with our friends. Thank you for the Pilgrims who came to this land to seek out religious freedom. Thank you for allowing them to pave the way for a freedom that hold true today. Mighty God, thank you for opening doors for us to serve on Thanksgiving. I pray that you use us to bless others. I pray that we can serve without being selfish. Though we were sad to not be with family, thank you for clearing our schedule so that we can be apart of something bigger than us.
Psalm 100:3-5 Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his [a] ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. 5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
4 comments:
So the rumor is true... I'm sorry. BUT, you know what you all are going to form some precious memories as well as serve in Jesus name. What an incredible way to spend Thanksgiving. Take lots of pictures!!
steph.
It's so awesome how that worked out for you guys!!! I'm looking forward to helping out too! If nothing else...you'll always have your church family to spend holidays with! :)
I am glad you all will be there too. I am excited to get to do something like this.
We like hanging out with fellow weirdos! :) we had a great time yesterday and looking foward to more fun days like that! (no more Jack accidents though!)
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