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Part A: Share at least 3 “Bountiful Blessings” that the Lord has abundantly provided.

Part B: Share your Thanksgiving Feast {past or present} You may use Photos, menus, recipes, activities, traditions…Be creative! –”Who carves the turkey?”, “Do you save the wishbone?”, “What do you serve for dessert?”, “Who hosts the Thanksgiving dinner in your family” ….my favorite…”What do you do with all those leftovers?”

Part C: Post a Scripture that reminds you of your blessings!

Part A:  Three blessings I have to share are my home, my daughters and my husband! 

Part B:  Our thanksgiving feast includes my husband and daughter, sometimes my younger sister comes and brings a friend or two with her.  I usually bake turkey, stuffing, yeast rolls, sweet potatoes and I make a cranberry relish, which I don't have the recipe for because I made it up one year by mistake and it was so good that I make it every year now.  Anything else we have is not really planned but more tradition.  I like to have something that my mom would have had at her dinner and I always try to get Gerald to think of something that his mom would have made, to try and spread life-long traditions, it doesn't always work out but we do try.  My daughter and I or her dad usually break the wish bone, if we remember to.  Hubby carves the turkey and says prayer.  We usually have my sister take home a bunch of leftovers and then we have to eat them or freeze them for the coming weeks.  I like making a turkey stew out of some of them.  We don't have anything fancy because the day is about giving Thanks, not appearances and seeing who has this or that.  This reference shares with you about our dessert and how it's made.  We do take time at dinner time to have each of us talk about the past year and how our lives have changed, about how and what we're thankful for and to praise God for all His blessings.  To many our day would be very boring and dry, but for us the day is spent being thankful for what we do have, because there have been two times in our short marriage that we've been homeless and couldn't imagine having a Thanksgiving Dinner at all!  Unlike most modern day families we don't look forward to Thanksgiving just because it' s the "biggest shopping day of the year" because we never could think beyond just having the money for Turkey and the meal for the day.  I don't really have an elaborate post to write about Thanksgiving except that it's a special family time and our favourite holy day of the year! 

 17  And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.

 18  He said, Bring them hither to me.

 19  And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

 20  And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

Have a blessed day!

Bountiful Blessings BFS #9

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