Opus 2025-543: Thanksgiving Plus One

On our weekly Zoom call the old geezers got off on organ recitals.  It wasn’t about our organs but the struggles that others were going through.  It started with a young man related to a friend who was only 51 and was already facing a life of vigilance against infection.  It went on from their.  Often I would get bored but today it made me think of the people struggling in my church.  Instead of boredom I found myself being encouraged.

First, I am encouraged by the attitudes expressed by those suffering.  I won’t bore you with all the things shared at church but my awareness of the many things waiting to get me has vastly expanded.  At the same time the joy of the Lord is very apparent.  These people may not be able to “walk it off” but they will continue to walk in joy and the light of His presence.

Second, I was reminded of how blessed I am.  I am thankful on a daily basis.  Every time I go out to walk I thank God for another day of mobility, freedom from pain and the balance to make it safely down the stairs to the street.  This organ recital reminded me of how blessed I really am.  One of the topics that came up was falling.  I compared my recent wrestling match with the trash can on the way to the street to what they shared about people they knew.  I lost my match.  I went sprawling.  I hit the grass instead of the concrete and managed to miss all the rocks sticking up in our yard.  It still took me a month to get over the shake up.  That was a month of thanking my guardian angel.  I sometimes make him earn his paycheck.

Yesterday the nation stopped to be thankful.  We are only aware of the tip of the iceberg that represents our blessings.  Start to think about it.  Start to be thankful.  I hope you know the One that we are to be thanking.

homo unius libri