As I mentioned in the other open thread, I’m thankful that we moved last year from Florida to Indiana so that we are close enough to spend time with family in Kentucky on the holidays. (Oh, and there’re those incarnational and Eucharistic things too!)
Hard to pick what for which I am most thankful, but good health in my advanced years, so that I can keep up with my son’s family and do the things they enjoy would be one. All the usual; warm roof over my head, plenty on my dinner plate, lots of good friends and extended family (with whom I will share this day), and the list goes on. I am so rich with God’s blessings. As the song says; “why me Lord, what have I done to deserve even one”……and the answer comes back “grace”……
Dear friends, sometimes I get the feeling that readers of this blog think that all people over here in Europe are negative towards the United States. Well, that is not true. I would like to pause on this Thanksgiving Day to thank God
for all my friends in the US and from the US;
for the courage and steadfastness of that nation;
for its adherence to the Christian faith;
for the positive attitude and good humour that so many Americans bring to lighten up the day.
For these and for all his blessings: Deo gratias.
I am thankful for the usual: my husband, my kids, my grandson, my cats, my comfortable home, my red Mustang . . .
But also I thank God for the opportunity to serve Him and his people in my parish and community. And I thank Him for my rector who, through difficult times, is standing firm in the Faith.
I am thankful for the wealth of people God continues to send my way, or to whom I am sent; for loving friends and family; for my new church community which is holding me while I pursue a newly rediscovered vocation; for renewed hope and faith, and the ability to give voice to all of the above.
We went last night to the Lincoln Memorial and I was once again moved to read both speeches, especially the second inaugural. I am so grateful for this country in spite of all our inadeqaucies.
I am thankful for my wife and family.
I am thankful for my co worker, Craige Borrett, for his family, and for the parish family of Christ Saint Pauls on Yonges Island where I serve.
I am very grateful this year that I arrived in time to be there with my Dad and brother when my mother died.
I am thankful for the acting Bishop of South Carolina and all he has done for the diocese in his 17 plus years.
For our first holiday back in the church . . . with power. For an opportunity to give back for all the generosity we have received: three carloads of parishioners who took leftovers from our community meal to the homeless under bridges and overpasses. For all who have come to our aid since the levees breached in early September 2005 and the new opportunities for ministry and witnessing that have come forth from tragedy.
jerry kramer+ op
Annunciation, New Orleans
I am thankful for my dear blessed wife who has been my love and strength for over forty years and our two boys and their young families. I am especially thankful for Skype that lets us see my new three month old granddaughter born to my oldest son being a doctor and his lovely wife in Southeast Asia.
I am especially thankful, as we all should be, for Kendall’s giving us this blog that means so much to this old man.
And I am, as always, most grateful for my dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ whom I love so very much and I feel loves me more than I deserve.
I am thankful that my wife and I are still together, and each of us are regaining our health together. I am thankful that we were able to gather together with family (four generations) yesterday and celebrate Thanksgiving day.
As I mentioned in the other open thread, I’m thankful that we moved last year from Florida to Indiana so that we are close enough to spend time with family in Kentucky on the holidays. (Oh, and there’re those incarnational and Eucharistic things too!)
Hard to pick what for which I am most thankful, but good health in my advanced years, so that I can keep up with my son’s family and do the things they enjoy would be one. All the usual; warm roof over my head, plenty on my dinner plate, lots of good friends and extended family (with whom I will share this day), and the list goes on. I am so rich with God’s blessings. As the song says; “why me Lord, what have I done to deserve even one”……and the answer comes back “grace”……
Dear friends, sometimes I get the feeling that readers of this blog think that all people over here in Europe are negative towards the United States. Well, that is not true. I would like to pause on this Thanksgiving Day to thank God
for all my friends in the US and from the US;
for the courage and steadfastness of that nation;
for its adherence to the Christian faith;
for the positive attitude and good humour that so many Americans bring to lighten up the day.
For these and for all his blessings: Deo gratias.
I am thankful for the usual: my husband, my kids, my grandson, my cats, my comfortable home, my red Mustang . . .
But also I thank God for the opportunity to serve Him and his people in my parish and community. And I thank Him for my rector who, through difficult times, is standing firm in the Faith.
No. 3 – Thank you, Terry Tee.
I’m thankful for the thorns — those challenges (too many to list!) that have forced me to grow (or die). I’m thankful that I’m still standing!
I am thankful for the wealth of people God continues to send my way, or to whom I am sent; for loving friends and family; for my new church community which is holding me while I pursue a newly rediscovered vocation; for renewed hope and faith, and the ability to give voice to all of the above.
We went last night to the Lincoln Memorial and I was once again moved to read both speeches, especially the second inaugural. I am so grateful for this country in spite of all our inadeqaucies.
I am thankful for my wife and family.
I am thankful for my co worker, Craige Borrett, for his family, and for the parish family of Christ Saint Pauls on Yonges Island where I serve.
I am very grateful this year that I arrived in time to be there with my Dad and brother when my mother died.
I am thankful for the acting Bishop of South Carolina and all he has done for the diocese in his 17 plus years.
For our first holiday back in the church . . . with power. For an opportunity to give back for all the generosity we have received: three carloads of parishioners who took leftovers from our community meal to the homeless under bridges and overpasses. For all who have come to our aid since the levees breached in early September 2005 and the new opportunities for ministry and witnessing that have come forth from tragedy.
jerry kramer+ op
Annunciation, New Orleans
I am thankful for my dear blessed wife who has been my love and strength for over forty years and our two boys and their young families. I am especially thankful for Skype that lets us see my new three month old granddaughter born to my oldest son being a doctor and his lovely wife in Southeast Asia.
I am especially thankful, as we all should be, for Kendall’s giving us this blog that means so much to this old man.
And I am, as always, most grateful for my dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ whom I love so very much and I feel loves me more than I deserve.
I am thankful that my wife and I are still together, and each of us are regaining our health together. I am thankful that we were able to gather together with family (four generations) yesterday and celebrate Thanksgiving day.