First head over to Ann's blog and read this:
http://www.aholyexperience.com/2008/11/thanksgiving-rightly-addressed.html
Hers is my favorite blog of the many I read, and this one was a great post about Thanksgiving.
I have so much to be thankful for this year. We've been sick this week. I've had a cranky baby who doesn't feel well at all, and I've just been giving thanks through out. Not a day goes by that I do not thank God for this baby I prayed for, for all the ways He has grown me through the process. The process of asking for and waiting, learning contentment, the process of allowing Him to be my strength through fear. And this week I've been thanking Him for a reminder to take a few days and hold her and snuggle her and savor these days, because all too soon she'll too be grown.
I've never been a morning person, but lately I have been savoring being the first one up (well besides a sweet baby who is happiest first thing and content to play quietly for the hour before her brothers wake up). Seeing the frost on the grass, watching the sun rise in the quiet of the day.
I am thankful to never take for granted the gift I have been given of staying home with my children. Of being the one who shapes their world view, of witnessing every moment of who they are becoming. Of being able to cover them in prayer through the day. I am thankful God chose this for my purpose, and that my husband agrees this is the most important place to be.
I believe heartily that everyday should be filled with Thanksgiving to God, but I am thankful for this special week every year, to remember His Providence and protection towards the pilgrims who wanted only to live the way He commands. Thankful for an excuse to make and savor traditions with my family.
