Thanksgiving Agur Style

There are three reasons for thanksgiving; actually four we want to give thanks to the Lord for during this season: the gift of a precious family, a Thanksgiving bounty with turkey and all the fixin’s, the cross of Christ through which we have been reconciled to God, family visiting for the holiday.

There are three gifts we have received; yes four we would never have thought we would be given in Mexico: a bottle of wine for Christmas, a rosary after a confirmation, a pedicure for the girls’ birthdays and incense from the fortuneteller to whom we gave a Bible.

There are three traffic realities I’ll never grow accustomed to; four that we find hard to understand: parking in the street to run an errand thus funneling all traffic into one lane, on coming vehicles on one way streets, huge potholes in the interstate, left hand turns from right hand lanes.

Three things break my heart; four that are just too difficult to accept: beggars and their babies on the streets, affectionate caressing of an image, small children spending the day in the median of the road while their parents work the traffic lights, friends who are devotedly and sincerely wrong.

There are four things in which we are blessed; yes four that require a word of appreciation: family and friends who encourage us in immeasurable ways, laughter in our home, finding cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving dinner, not knowing what’s around the corner but knowing God is in control and we will not be forsaken.

There are three things we would never be able to do on Thanksgiving Day; well let’s say four that would be impossible in West Virginia: watch the sun come up over a palm tree, serve camote for dinner, pick flowers for a Thanksgiving bouquet, go out to the street for ice cream cones.