Since my last post the bruise got worse, and now it is better. I’m still typing with one hand, still have my arm wrapped to where it isn’t bendable; but no need for pain medicine now. Tomorrow I get this big bandage off! It has crossed my mind that I may wish to have it put back on! Oh well, progress is being made.
It is the Monday before Thanksgiving and Kristin has convinced me why it is necessary to begin decorating for Christmas before we’ve even had Thanksgiving. Normally I would not allow it, but this year our schedules don’t allow another time; so the decorating has begun!
It’s all about remembering and being thankful for the memories. I fear that in being rushed and impatient with the natural progression of time, we will forget to remember, we will allow impatience to rob us of life’s gifts. Many will say the ability just to remember is a gift. I like to close my eyes and try to remember back as far as I can. There is usually something in my childhood years I can recall. No matter how faint it may be, I know the incident to be a gift. Even in, and possibly most of all, the times I required parental correction, we’re some of the greatest gifts given because they are some of the most useful in my life’s time. It is no different in the times since when life was most difficult. Those are the times that either make you or break you. When one can allow them to become gifts of strength, of faith, of wisdom and character, then one has unwrapped the gift to benefit from it’s greatest rewards.
Yesterday was our 17th anniversary. Together we thought about our lives and the paths they had taken. We agree we have led simple, yet extraordinary lives. Extraordinary in the abundance of love given, the opportunities given with the greatest one being that of knowing Christ. It is the greatest gift a parent can pass on to their child. It is because of the knowledge of Christ’s love that we have been able to use the difficult times of marriage and use them in a positive manner.
Rick and I have been given the gift of an awesome relationship, the gift of children, grandchildren and I could go on and on. But the greatest of all these is love.
Please take time to remember and be thankful this holiday season.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
God Bless,
Tracie
