November 1st: The Thanksgiving Tree...

"Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. 

This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live."
-1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (the Message) 

 

When our boys were little we made a Thanksgiving Tree. We went out into our backyard & found a few spindly branches that we put in a vase with rocks they had collected over the summer. Each day we cut out a new leaf from colored construction paper for them to write something they were thankful for. They were thankful for simple things: Daddy, Mumma, their dog Shiloh, Legos, roller-blades, the Sandlot, Spaghetti O's, chicken nuggets, hockey, & Dramuh & Papa's pool.

So this month, the month of November, I am going to praying, thinking, writing, & resting in the spirit of thankfulness... each day I will add a leaf & a thought to our newly resurrected 'Thanksgiving Tree'...