Thanksgiving is more than a big meal and a football game. Especially on Thanksgiving Day, we all count our blessings. But as much as possessions and feelings, gratitude is itself a gift. Three essays on grace, thankfulness and joy help you remember the things in life worth appreciating, set the mood for the day and help you reflect on the real meaning of the holiday. Plus a collection of prayers and toasts give you words to say at the table. These essays first appeared in The Dallas Morning News on Thanksgivings through the years.
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I've got 2 books that I'm going to have my Thanksgiving table and this is one of them. It's a great collection of toasts, prayers and thoughts that are worth sharing at the table. The next book is a collection of Thanksgiving scriptures that I'm reading (30 Scripture Readings on Thanksgiving (Year Long Bible Reading Series)) These two books combined have helped orient my thoughts during this thanksgiving season and I'm looking forward to sharing them with my family. All that to say, Garcia nailed it with this book and I HIGHLY recommend it!!
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Every night (in theory at least), my son Charlie and I open the black spiral notebook on the kitchen table. We turn to the next blank page and, taking turns being the scribe, write the date and day of the week at the top, followed by the numbers one through five.
Next to the each number, we each write what we're grateful for that day. We call them "Our Five Things" and they can be anything -- baked spaghetti, snort laughs, snow (rare in Texas), being silly, a good grade on a test (him), a good run (me).
They're so simple really. But they're more, too. They're a (mostly) nightly tradition we share. Plus they remind us that life is a gift, one comprised of lots of trinkets and snippets, of jubilation and shadows. That may sound trite, but it's true, and I try (mostly successfully) to remember that.
As a writer (a perennial Five Thing) for The Dallas Morning News (another one), I am lucky to be able to share -- through my own observations as well as through people I'm fortunate enough to meet -- the inspirations, the interpretations, and the occasional truths about this crazy happy thing we call life.
Next to the each number, we each write what we're grateful for that day. We call them "Our Five Things" and they can be anything -- baked spaghetti, snort laughs, snow (rare in Texas), being silly, a good grade on a test (him), a good run (me).
They're so simple really. But they're more, too. They're a (mostly) nightly tradition we share. Plus they remind us that life is a gift, one comprised of lots of trinkets and snippets, of jubilation and shadows. That may sound trite, but it's true, and I try (mostly successfully) to remember that.
As a writer (a perennial Five Thing) for The Dallas Morning News (another one), I am lucky to be able to share -- through my own observations as well as through people I'm fortunate enough to meet -- the inspirations, the interpretations, and the occasional truths about this crazy happy thing we call life.
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