Last Saturday a group of women from Gateway Covenant got together to celebrate....us!!!
When you celebrate one another, you talk and listen and laugh and hear and learn about the other. It's called R E L A T I O N S H I P.
I believe the catalyst to relationship is not only love but also F O O D.
It's what we will do this weekend too. Families will get together to celebrate our blessings which of course includes each other and food.
I've got my pumpkin pies all made (with the marvelous help of husband). Talk about a right hand man....well, he's my right foot man....literally.
Speaking with son last evening from India, he won't be having any pumpkin pie with whipped cream or turkey or yams or stuffing and gravy. He said they have a lot of mangoes but didn't think mango pie would be quite the same as pumpkin. People on the streets there will continue to beg for their daily food and some will go without. It's the same here in Prince Albert. There are children and mothers who are hungry.
But whether we're together, or very far apart this Thanksgiving weekend, we have the commonality of the Spirit which brings us and holds us all together through all of life....
".....in loss and tripmph,
in laughter, crying,
in want and riches,
in living, dying...."
to quote a great Swedish hymn "O Let Your Soul Now Be Filled with Gladness".
May we be truly thankful, God, through all the seasons of life for all we have received......and may we not stop at being thankful....... but that we grow and learn how to give of our riches with abandon, freely and openly to those who are in need.....for it is in giving that we receive the blessing of life and hope and love...... Amen.
1 comment:
Mango pie is wonderful, a bit like peach or even apple if they are a bit green. Greenish mangoes cooked and mashed are a lot like applesauce. Wonderful treats.
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