The morning sun is rising over the Neuse. The sky is red and the water reflects the color alongside its normal blue. My family is waking. There are four generations of us gathered to give thanks together this Thanksgiving Day. Sweet potatoes are cooked and ready to be peeled. The coconut cake is ready and pecan pie too. If I were to name my thanksgivings this day, there would not be enough room to list it all in the whole internet! In every person here, in every laugh, in every hug, in every molecule of being, love is here, God is here and my only response is thanksgiving and deep gratitude.
The words of Psalm 100 still echo from last week’s lectio. “Enter God’s gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to God and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations.” That is surely true for the generations gathered under our roof today; God;s blessings abound among us. So let thanksgiving abound from every heart today… with parades and football… and may God be pleased that we stop to remember the Source of all that is good and give thanks and praise! Have a blessed Thanksgiving Day.
