Opus 2025-541: Thanksgiving Countdown

There are certain things that I can count on today.  It starts with getting up and being thankful, but that’s something that happens every day with me.  It’s part of my morning worship routine.  Thanksgiving day is wonderful, but it’s just where I take my habits and focus on them a bit more.

The next thing I have to do is make sure that I am out of the kitchen.  I don’t remember this being a problem when I was younger and more frisky, but at that point, my wife was younger and more frisky too.  In addition, the kids were there.  Now, she wants me out of the way.  So by this time I have already had breakfast I’m going to leave and settle into my corner.

Eventually, the smell of things cooking begins to float through the house.

Family begins to arrive.

We sit down around the table and begin our Thanksgiving rituals.  The one that stands out is the passing of the corn, or rather the corn container.  Each person finds two kernels of corn on their plate.  We go around the table twice and for each kernel as we put it in the basket, we are to be thankful for something.

And of course, then we actually eat.

And of course, the culmination of the eating is the desserts.

And then comes the final, awesome moment.  We can now turn on the Christmas music.  Thanksgiving isn’t really over, but the season of advent and the incarnation begins.

I thought it would never get here.

Have a blessed Thanksgiving and don’t forget to start saying, “Merry Christmas.”

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