Triple C News - November 27, 2020

Hey, everyone!

What an awesomeThanksgiving Day!! 

Even if it’s the “Year of the Coronavirus”! 

Just like the Grinch discovered, it didn’t stop Thanksgiving from coming!

What IS it about that day that is so awesomely beautiful?

Is it the smells that take you back to memories that are sweeter than pecan pie?

(If our kids come to our house the Bennett Rd way, for the grandkids in back. it's literally  "over the river…or creek, really…and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go!")

Is it the sentimental feeling inside that feels warmer than the bird in the oven?

Is it the thoughts of the "Thanksgivings of days-gone-by" that swell your heart like a helium balloon drifting down Fifth Ave in front of Macy's?

I don't think so, really.

I think the thing inside my heart that I love on Thanksgiving…

this weird year and every year…

is that it gives you a whiff of the feeling that should fill every room in your heart every day of the year! 

To deliberately, intentionally, thoughtfully, purposefully, methodically, introspectfully and retrospectfully…

slooooooow dooooooown

long enough to thank God for…

all we have…

all He is…

all He gives…

THAT'S what feels so awesome and "Thanksgiving-y" about Thanksgiving Day!

It's not from remembering what "the Day" used to feel like 

(and maybe doesn’t as much this year)

as much as from remembering that this is the way every day should feel!

To be filled with thanks is as beautifully satisfying and satisfyingly filling as two or three plate-loads of turkey and stuffing!

I remember one guy writing that he was having a tough time. His marriage had fallen apart and he was in "just making it" mode. 

He slipped into a diner one Saturday. 

Folks sitting…eating…reading…sipping coffee. 

Minding each their own business. 

A young mom and little daughter sat in a booth and the little girl watched as food was delivered and immediately consumed. 

"Mom, don't people thank the Lord here?" she said.

The waitress stopped. 

"Sure, honey! We thank the Lord here! 

Would you like to lead us?"

"Ok", she answered.

Then the waitress added, "HEY! EVERYBODY SHUT UP AND BOW YOUR HEADS! WE'RE THANKING THE LORD TODAY!"

Everyone froze. 

Then you could hear a sweet voice say…

"God is great.

God is good.

Now we thank Thee for our food.

By Thy hand we are fed.

Thank You, Lord for daily bread.

Amen."

And everyone looked up. 

And smiled! 

And a couple clapped! 

And there rose in the air a feeling of cheer. 

In an instant, everything had changed about the place! 

I remember that fellow who told of the moment wrote something like, "And I felt a change in my heart. I knew I had been going through a tough time, for sure. But I had my Lord! He had forgiven me and made me His own! And at least HE would never leave me! And I knew I was going to walk into the future with Him! How many things I had to be (but had forgotten to be) thankful for! Thanks changes everything!

"Now ain't that better?" said the waitress. "I think from now on, we'll start everyday that a way!"

So, it's good (tho' a little crazy that we even need it!) to have someone tell us, "Remember to thank God! For everything!"

Today

on this day after “the Day”

we thank God for all His goodness!

For all His promises! 

For loving each of us so wonderfully!

For washing us clean and making us His!

For giving us delicious food and a beautiful place to live!

For filling our hearts with joy!

For giving us the faith to trust Him through one of the toughest years we’ve all ever had!

For a life full of a growing family and loving friends!

For something good and sweet to do for Him!

For our awesome Triple C family! 

And at the Job house, we thank God for you!!

We love you all and hope…

since everyday should be Thanksgiving Day…

that this “Day-After-Thanksgiving-Day” is “blessed-est”Thanksgiving Day ever!!