A Thanksgiving to remember, at least, and not anything like all the others in my memory. But, looking back on the occasion, my heart is filled with thankfulness.
It probably began Thanksgiving eve with friends ringing my doorbell and hastening to flee to the yard when I answered. I am drinking my morning coffee from the mug they left in a bag on my doorstep that had the word “Thankful” printed on each side.
That message carried forth the whole day as our family called on me in my garage and front lawn and then left to their own celebration. We kept up with each other’s festivities via social media, seeing feasts that varied in menu, but not in purpose.
But there was sometime more about this Thanksgiving, that Sarah and I expressed to each other. Gone is the feeling of feeling our nation sink into a entity I couldn’t identify. Gone is wishing for truth and decency to be the touchstone of our leadership in the world. No matter how hard I tried, not “fake”news but tweets that degraded and divided us one from another filled my heart with sadness
The standards of truth and love for and embracing our diversity, taught to me as a child, were suddenly under attack and I didn’t like this woman whom I had become. I didn’t like her thoughts, I didn’t like not being able to assure my daughters that it would get better. I didn’t like what our nation displayed to the world.
Yes, a different Thanksgiving, but as I shut my eyes last night, thankfulness flooded my soul like never before. Maybe, just maybe, I needed this !!
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