garychester.org blog11/26/08
We're experimenting this Thanksgiving at Gary and Ro's house. Our traditional Thursday meal this year will be Thanksgiving eve.
The reason for our first ever Thanksgiving eve meal is that in our family there are numerous households doing Thursday meals. Scheduling makes for frustration.
Nobody wants to do the meal early. Most prefer around 2pm. If we try to cooperate with others and do ours late in the day, no one arrives hungry. Not very encouraging for the main one preparing the meal.
So, this year, we've decided on early Wednesday evening, and our adult kids seem to be pleased with the new scheme.
We also like the idea that on Thursday itself, we can embrace a friend who has no family in the area. I know what that's like. Lonely. Left out. A feeling that maybe you really don't matter to anyone.
On a certain Thanksgiving day years ago, I, as a single-again adult, was spending Thanksgiving alone when the phone rang. It was a friend who invited me over for turkey. The invitation made me feel I wasn't left out of the great American tradition.
Do you know anyone like this you could put an arm around Thursday? (Romans 12:13)
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