Memories

Granny here,

It's that time again Thanksgiving and Christmas two of the greatest days of the year! They are also days when memories come flooding in like a sunami and fill ones mind to overflowing. Memories that help us understanding the true meaning of Thanksgiving and visions of long gone Christmases that fill us with joy as we go over them on the memory player of our mind.

Memories that may have been tucked away for safe keeping that we thought were put away for good make their way into the present and fill us with longing for days gone by. Memories that fill us with longing for the friends we once knew, that gift that was so special, that dinner at mom's. Memories of those that no longer fill our lives or sit at our dinner table or peek at the gifts under the tree. Those that God saw fit to take from us without asking our permission that left hole in our heart and an empty place in our daily lives that no one or nothing can fill. But we can be thankful for the years we had and the memories we made before they left us.

Old memories made return from time to time but there are new memories to be made, memories of new blessings to be thankful for, new friends around our Thanksgiving tables, new faces of new additions to the family either by birth or marriage. God's blessings never cease we just have to recognize them. For all of us just having another Thanksgiving and Christmas is a blessing within itself. Not every family will be priviledged when the holidays arrive.

So when you sit around your table on Thanksgiving and you open your gift on Christmas a memory may make its way into your celebration welcome it as a member of the family, give it its rightful place of honor and enjoy what was with what is to be.

Happy Thanksgiving

Granny here, just saying!