SERENDIPITY: Thankful Chain

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Thankful Chain

November, the month to deliberately be more thankful. Thinking and writing the simple things that we are all so grateful for. We decided to make a Thankful Chain. Each day this week, we have each written out 4 things that we are thankful for. Then we take each slip and staple it around another to form this paper chain. We did it where each family member was linked by another family member's thankful sheet. The chain could go on and on. How wonderful it would be to have your Thanksgiving visitors write one down to continue the chain. This is definitely a group effort! Now it is taped on the mantel. Each time we see the thankful chain we are reminded that a grateful heart is contagious. An attitude of gratitude is a wonderful thing!

1 comment:

miranda said...: no offense, but it wouldn't hurt to change the color of the text. it's pretty hard to read. Very, very hard to read.; November 6, 2009 at 2:06 PM

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IF by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same; If you bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the Will which says to them; "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, If either foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and which is more, you'll be a man, my son!

My Dad

our last christmas, little did we know!! we miss you-you are always in our thoughts. We sold his house, it was as if we had to say goodbye again. Nothing but fond memories. Movie night, hide and go seek, fishing, the beach, pool table, weight room, ice cream, bagels, peach diet iced tea, laughing...simply you. Miss you more than you will ever know. It feels as if it was just yesterday, thank God you are "free". "With your final heartbeat, kiss the world goodbye, go in peace and laugh on Glory's side. And fly to Jesus, fly to Jesus, fly to Jesus and LIVE....." .