So, what do you do two days after Thanksgiving? After the turkey carcass is dissected, after the left-overs are half gone, after the thanks are used up?
I don’t know what you do. Sometimes I feel sort of like the turkey carcass. Right about now, I feel a bit used up.
This year, I would like to try something new. I’ve seen a lot of people on Facebook posting daily things to be Thankful for leading up to Thanksgiving. But I would like to start giving thanks now.
This is the “sacrifice of thanks”, when the thanks are hard to come by.
I would like Thanksgiving to go on and on. It is my favorite holiday. And Christmas has already taken over everything. I would like to keep my Thanksgiving table decorations a few more days and not have them look stale. I would like to keep the Christmas put away until at least December 15th.
I would like a station on the radio devoted to songs about Thanksgiving. Wait, are there any Thanksgiving songs? Huh. Why not?
Why not devote just a bit more time to a thankful, grateful heart? Why not nurture the giving of thanks?
Why the mad rush into buying and scrambling into glitter and glitz?
What’s wrong with the dust and dirt of real life and the giving of the thanks in all that?
Is there a more graceful way to life from November into December than rushing off to retail in the dark of night to get a “deal”?
How about sitting in the quiet stillness of morning with a fresh brewed cup of coffee and a slice of apple pie two days old. I give thanks.
Because right now, there is nothing else I need. A minute from now, things may change. But in this moment, I give thanks.
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