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Keeping Perspective During The Holiday....

Well, here it is - "Thanksgiving 'Eve'" and things are NOT going as planned. It seems like everything I've planned to do for tommorrow is hitting the skids. I've even chewed out Muddy a few times today for what seemed liked ligitimate reasons - at the time. Of course, there's fault enough to split two ways. So I guess the challenge for me now is to keep in mind what this holiday is *suppossed* to be about. Counting your blessing. With me - it's easy to count my blessings. Unfortunately what's hard is keeping my mind in the present and not dwelling on the future where my mind tends to live a lot. I hate that! I thank God for my kids who I get to stay home with everyday. However, my mind goes to a place where they will someday leave the nest and have families of their own therefore putting mommy as the "not so center" of their world. Which is the way it should evolve to be. I thank God for my grandma (mamaw) who is 82 years old. She's my last surviving grandparent and as fiesty as ever! (and I wouldn't have her any other way). However, my mind tends to drift to a time when she will no longer be here to celebrate these holidays with us anymore. This *could* be her last Thanksgiving with us. (of course as stuborn as she can be, I wouldn't be surprised if that characteristic alone kept her around for another 10 years!). I also think of my father who now lives with our heavenly Father. I can still hear his voice, his laugh, his politically incorrect comments (I loved that about him!), his "jokes" at the Thanksgiving table that sometimes only he would get (and laugh at). I miss him.

I guess the whole point to this *long winded* - whatever - is to just dwell on today. It doesn't really matter what items you bring or don't bring to the holiday table, what matters is the *heart* you bring. Loved ones are not here forever but the time they are here for is NOW and NOW is the time to live.

Posted by Mrs Muddy at November 22, 2006 05:21 PM