Yesterday was Thanksgiving. It was a beautiful fall day. We spent the morning together over a small breakfast and then we headed out to the Thanksgiving Feeding. When we got there I discovered that it wasn't the best idea to have brought the the little ones. It was a small church that normally has about 50-75 in attendance, but on this day they would feed around 700. Pretty crazy!! The majority of the feedings that were to happen would be delivered. But that created the chaos of preparing those meals.
Daddy and his 2 big girls lined up on an assembly line and started fixing meals with a large group of volunteers. I was a little disappointed that they didn't have much/if any interaction with people, but it was some good ole fashion hard work. I stayed in they nursery with our little ones and played while the "feeding" was going on.
After we finished at the church, we headed home. We came back to our house and finished preparing some of Thanksgiving favorites and then sat down to enjoy a nice meal. A friend of ours came over at ate with us because his fiance was out of town. But all in all it was a peaceful Thanksgiving.
I am thankful that we could go and help those less fortunate than us. I am thankful that while we prepared food for those people who could not prepare it for themselves, we were blessed enough to have a turkey in our oven and food in our refrigerator.
Thank you God for making us rich with family and love. When times are rough I pray that we can always glance back at days like this and be grateful that they happened.
Blessed be the name of the Lord. He gives and takes away, but I will say."Blessed Be Your Name."
1 comment:
Sounds like a great day. I'm sure you were all blessed and I know that all those people were blessed by generousity of that church and all of you who didn't do the "norm", and served them.
Hope you survived Black Friday with the big kids!
love you all,
steph.
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