Thanksgiving

I have recovered from another great Thanksgiving.

 

We had a plan to wake up, make breakfast and watch Thanksgiving TV which is usually a football game or the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade... we watched both.

 

Mom made cinnamon buns and dad made eggs and Rose waited while she enjoyed her morning bottle:)

 

 I didnt say she waited happily the whole time.
 

Every year I am reminded how much I love this day.

 

Aside from all the awesome food, family and friends who gather together under one roof to watch football and etc. I have to remember the most important thing I am thankful for.

 

God for giving me my life, my family and my faith.  

 

Thank you to infinity. Thank you thank you thank you... we cant forget who the author of all this is.

 

Thank you, Lord for giving me all my blessings and all my crosses. I ask that you bless this next coming year, keep us safe and strong and more importantly keep us strong in our faith and in our church.

 

I am thankful for my parents who are my teachers, my protectors and examples. Likewise I am thankful for Our Lord, for being my teacher, my protector and an example of all that is good and holy. Thank you for my home, a place to protect me from the cold and a shield from the elements, a place where my family lives and prays. Likewise thank you for my faith, the Church, a place to call home, a place to see you Lord, to talk to you, a place to help me step out into the world, where I can grow in faith (yes, 28 years later and I am still learning...it will be like that forever!) and where I partake in Your life each time we celebrate mass, I get to step out into the world with You on my side along with all the saints as forever examples of warriors, teachers, doctors, mothers, fathers, soldiers and lay. Thank you for my siblings and all my family... who I see as my fellow man who see, hear and live as I do. Sharing our faith joins us in camaraderie during the good times and the bad. 

 

This month has been pretty trying. Testing aspects of my faith, feeling less hopeful that good really prevails...

 

This is when I have to look at all the good and faithful people that we have been blessed to be surrounded by. I definitely come to love my faith more deeply when I find most comfort in mass before the Blessed Sacrament, or when a friend reminds me when saying "our crosses aren't meant to be easy in this world". Or when my dad tells me "this is the time we need to be MOST hopeful and pray... don't despair!"

 

I mean what if you dumped all your fears and lack of trust about things in life and all the person says to make you feel better was "oh well, I am sure things will be fine" ha-ha that doesn't cut it for me and would make me more depressed!!! But when someone offers to pray with me or for me and we talk of perseverance and living our Faith.... that's something I can do!!!!

 

I had no intention of writing about this but it came out and I guess I have been reflecting on these things over the past month....

Once again I am thankful... without saying.... but I will add.... for my wonderful husband and daughter AND our little baby on the way. Our little growing family.

Happy Thanksgiving 2012

-Clara