Thankfulness


BLESS YOUR HEART
by Don G. (my DH)

While a student in grade school, I did not fully understand what Thanksgiving was all about. However, that does not mean that I was not thankful. I knew that school would be out for a week and that marked the beginning of what was known as the “Holiday Season. “ If for no other reason, every child at Old Union School was thankful that classes were dismissed. We were FREE to roam the hills and hollows from daylight to dark. No take-home work, no numbers, no spelling test (which I usually failed), and halleluiah no scribing to be done. We could ignore the dangling participles, forgo diagramming sentences and say “AINT”, without being corrected by our teachers Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs. Jenny. Do you suppose that Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs. Jenny were as thankful as their students that classes were dismissed?

As a person reaches adulthood and shoulders the responsibility of a family they learn what it is to have a job, a good and faithful mate and the children underfoot. They learn the challenges when there is more month than there is money; when your days and nights are spent by the bedside of a ill love one; and the emptiness that comes from following a hearse down a lonely lane to the cemetery. It seems to me that we learn to be thankful by going through the trials of life. It is after the night that we are most thankful for the morning. I am thankful that I have lived long enough to learn to be thankful when there are no challenges to be faced.

4 comments:

  1. I love the last line, Sandra

    I am thankful that I have lived long enough to learn to be thankful when there are no challenges to be faced.

    Very well said indeed.

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  2. Thanks! ladies for all your kind remarks. ;o)

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