So I find myself today in my Mom's home town, far from my own beloved Alaska, in a marine climate, and warm temps approaching the Thanksgiving holiday. This plan was a sudden plan and so Mom is spending the week with my brother in North Dakota as she could not change her flight and plans so late. I am starting a seasonal job very different from the career I have had all my adult life, while waiting on pending job offers at home. WOW. no snow, no cold, no familiar friends tradition and no daughter near by who is enjoying her new son only 3 wks old.
I could find myself quite nostalgic and longing...because I have a sentimental nature which borders on really ridiculous! but there are people here this week in this "foreign land" who need a touch of God's love and who have something for me to grow and learn from. There are shoppers here who need hope, light, and a friendly smile at a time of year when stress is high and money is tight.
It is a time for me to be quiet and reflect without demands of usual life and search out more of the God I love so much..Its a time to take stock, journal, blog, read, brush up on my business webinars and apply for more jobs. Its time to be quiet and make Christmas gifts for my 5 grandchildren and 6 young friends that I will call my neices and nephews.
So whether you are with friends or noone or enemies, you have a gift this week of life and what you bring to the table beside turkey and friends is you. And did I mention that what God brings to the table is exceedingly abundantly all that you ask or think?
Its all what you make it! Happy Thanksgiving!
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