Well I was trying to think of something to write about. Thanksgiving is tomorrow and I've got to be honest, this morning I was pretty bummed. See we were all looking forward to a thanksgiving at my moms house. The kids were very excited to see "grandma" and "papa g". I was excited to have other people entertain my kids for five minutes. It was a win win situation for everyone. Well almost.......
A few days ago, due to the holidays coming up, I started to pray that God would provide me an opportunity to be a "blessing" to someone in some way. As one thing piled on top of another and situations came up to make this thanksgiving not happen the way we expected, I started to cry. It wasn't suppose to happen like this. I was suppose to be in a car for 12 hours with the kids singing songs, me breaking up fights, separating car seats, telling my husband how to drive.....awww it was going to be great.....but it didn't happen. At all.
A few days ago I made it a house rule to recited the verse I Thessalonians 5:18, every time we started to grumble or complain. "In all things give thanks...." I was reminded about this when all of our "plans" dissolved into nothing. So I started to say it, through the tears. After a while of reciting this over and over again, I stood up and said....."it isn't going to ruin my Thanksgiving" I grabbed my oldest daughter and off to crazy Walmart we went to go buy our Thanksgiving dinner. Without a plan or a menu we were doomed to fail, but who cares, "it wasn't going to ruin my thanksgiving!!!" After laughing at the fact that mommy always picks out the cart that has only two wheels that work while the other two always seem to take you in circles, we found that we were done. We had all that we needed to make dinner and we waited in line......the only line that Walmart felt they needed to have open two nights before thanksgiving. Finally we were out the door and on our way home.
Today I spent all day cooking. Now one thing you must understand is that I have what I call a "portion problem" There are five people in my family, I am very restricted with what I can eat so therefore I made enough food to feed......maybe......32 people. What I didn't realize before I got started was that God was answering my prayer. A few days ago my husband brought to my attention of someone who wasn't going to have a Thanksgiving dinner this year. As I was cooking this person came to mind several times. Because I cooked so much I was able to give this person enough Thanksgiving dinner for him and his girlfriend.
God is good all of the time. If you want to hear God laugh tell Him your "plans" I am so very glad that God gave us this opportunity to bless someone else this Thanksgiving. Part of me would like to think that we were kept here just to make sure they recieved a Thanksgiving dinner, wether that be true or not it is neat to think about.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone........be thankful for what you have and make someone else thankful that they know you..........
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