My Unusual Thanksgiving List
I just drove back from Knoxville after a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration with all 16 of our crazy clan. The entire drive back I had my WOW Hymns from like the 90’s going. As I sang along and praised God on the way home I couldn’t help but remember how different this drive was just a few years ago. You look forward to going home for so long, then your there for 24-48 hours and then have to turn around and go back. Those drives back could be SOOOOO long and lonely and very depressing. But not this drive. Not because it isn’t just as sad to be leaving my family again, but because my focus was on the God who gave me that family. I was reminded as I drove of the blessing of pain and suffering. Hear me out. I used to live just down the street from my older sister and her 2 children. We had way too much fun together those two years and were very spoiled. Moving away from them was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done and I still miss them almost daily. Possibly because I have...