Thanksgiving - What's the Sense

The sense of Thanksgiving is to stretch oneself - not your stomach from too much turkey - well that too! But look to stretch your thoughts as to why we really are and should be thank full. I've heard so many stories of family drama - well we all should be so lucky. It is a responsibility an privilege to be included and to spend time with one another - given that attitude - all seems to work out well.

One great story was the head chef at the Salvation Army in Mobile AL - he was famous for taking the folks to task and trying to get them on the road home and back to a "normal" life. This man was homeless and on the street fro several years before someone helped him to get back on his feet. He conveyed that he knew what it felt to go a week without eating - what it felt like to belong nowhere - these are the stories that should give us pause - make us want to more for others, and ourselves. For that is the true first task - be thankful for you and who you are - once you are there you can extend that feeling to others. Good for the chef - good for all of us that serve in the soup kitchen - good for all of us who really get the meaning of the day -