In the USA, Thanksgiving day was started when the new world settlers and the Native Americans sat down together in celebration and friendship over a great fall harvest. It has since been made a traditional holiday where families, friends and loved ones get together and celebrate what they are thankful for for the year.
That being said, this year has been pretty dificult for many reasons. We have had covid and many people have been and still are separated from their families. Many people have had family members perish from this virus, lost their ability to work, to support their familyor pay rent/mortgage, etc.. On top of all that tragedy, personally this has been my first full year on dialysis.
With all those issues it can be hard to find things to be thankful for but there are always blessings when you think.
I am blessed to be able to still work and support my family. I am blessed to have a wonderful wife Michele that puts up with my shenanigans. My daughter Charlotte and her husband. My mother, sister Missy and her husband. I am blessed to have family that keeps in touch with me like Erin and Amy and Alison and my Aunts/Uncles Randy, Lisa, Janet, Michelle, etc., and a sister-in-law Lisa. They all show they care. I have fantastic friends that are also brothers in Christ. Tracy who checks in on me periodically – it means so much to me. Gary who has been a brother in Christ to me literally as long as I have been a Christian. Joel who is my constant buddy even though he lives 2000 miles away. Carl who was like a brother to me when I lived on the east coast. And there are many more of you – it makes me proud that it would take me so long to address them all here. and that brings me to the big one, God. Without God none of this would have been possible. Before I knew God my life was miserable and headed literally noplace. I had nothing and no way to get anywhere different. God changed all that and heaped all this upon me and, for that, I am truely thankful.