Please remember this is a non political post. If you make comments I have to trash I will put you on the banned list. I’m sorry this comment is necessary and prominent, but it is always needed. Be thankful or pass by this post, please.
I hope that you will bear with me during the first part of my post, as I use this opportunity to remember and be thankful for lots of people who made my year survivable, and not only helped me, but taught me much. I promise it’ll get better shortly.
This year Thanksgiving Day will be different for many of us, and you might even be stumbling over the gratitude, thankful, and happy part. If so, I hope to offer a few thoughts to change your mind.
For my family, and yes, for me as well, this has just been an awful year, the worst of my life so far. I found out this year that I had never really made an acquaintance with suffering, and long term severe pain, and I’ll just tell you straight up that I wish that had continued.
I mention my injury because it does lead to my point. Even in the midst of pain and near despair, I had to recognize that my blessings were many, and many of them came to me directly because of my injury. From moments after I had my fall, I had family to care for me, in ways large and small, three generations of family. I had friends to help as well, and boy, did I need all of them.
I dare say I had more prayers offered up for me than I’ve had my whole life. I had wise and kind people who understood just being there when nothing could be done except to be. Some of them lived far, far away, but they found wonderful ways to just be there when I needed it. At times I needed to be kicked instead of coddled, and my husband, a fine master of the blunt kick appropriately applied was not always around to do it, so there were a few friends with the kindness (I do sincerely mean that) and courage and wisdom to gently offer a nudge.
Speaking of husbands, mine is the best. He kept our lives going, cared for me, even when it humiliated and enraged me at the amount of care I needed, he cooked, shopped, cleaned, made all the rounds of doctor and therapy appointments, and worked a full time job. When he was needed out of town for work he refused to go until I was stable and safe. When it would have been okay and enjoyable for him to go on his Saturday shooting trips, he refused to go until I was safe…and less miserable. From the minutes after I called him following my fall until today, he has been what God made him to be, an unfailing rock.
I told my sons, he exercises those for better or worse vows just as well, just as strongly, just as faithfully and without one complaint in the for worse times as well as the for better times. When God made this man, he stood back and knew this one would stand against all struggles and hard times, that his heart would never falter, nor his step slow. This man will outlast any hard times and struggles. I am not really fit to stand beside him, but I sure am grateful, thankful, and happy that I get to.
My sons and daughters in law were exceptional in being there for me, and in rearranging their schedules and lives to help. My grandchildren even spent days fetching and carrying when I needed someone here with me. Extended family and friends helped in so many ways, from meals, cleaning, rides to doctors’ visits, and shopping for us.
Last but not least, EMTs, doctors, nurses, physician’s assistants, techs, physical therapists (my favorite people in the world right now), and all the medical personnel who have helped me survive and have hope of thriving again one day. For the fact that I had the best medical care in the world available at 4 in the morning and continuing through my recovery period. For gifted surgeons, especially, I am thankful. For experienced therapists who almost had to teach me to walk again.
Truly, I have had some of the greatest blessings and kindnesses of my life this year. Dear God, I am sorry that I spent more time complaining to you about my sorrows and pains than thanking you for the blessings you sent my way. I really, really hope I do better in the future.
And that leads me to thoughts about our world, in a general way, and our country specifically, and all that we Americans have faced this year as planet Earth has crazily made its voyage around our sun.
Those of us who are old enough were blessed to really learn about Thanksgiving from parents and teachers. In my childhood, every year we spent hours at school painstakingly making hand turkeys and putting on plays honoring the Pilgrims and Squanto and his fellow Indians who taught the settlers how to survive. We found out that our forefathers and mothers fought the elements, lack of proper knowledge and preparation, supplies, illness, starvation, and death the first winter they arrived in America. We found out how they learned to hunt, fish, but more importantly, plant and harvest, build and plan, prepare and prevail.
We learned those things, but I don’t think even our teachers and parents made us realize how much bitter, backbreaking hard work they endured on top of sickness and loss. We could never have understood what those men, women, and children endured, but we at least were taught to honor and remember it.
We were taught that they did the most important thing of all in the fall of the year after their first harvest. They set aside a day to honor and thank God for bringing them through, for blessing and saving them.
We kids did absolutely understand their thankfulness, and by extension our own. We proudly celebrated the troubles and triumphs of our American forefathers, blessed to begin a new life in this wonderful land of ours, our home, our America. I believe that being taught our Thanksgiving stories laid a foundation for patriotism.
Those first struggles set the American character for the future. Increasing numbers of colonists would step onto rather small wooden ships with poor food and little accommodation to human needs and brave the wild Atlantic storms to find homes in our wilderness, and they had their own fierce battles and struggles, despairs and triumphs.
In time American patriots, who did not yet possess the name Americans, would fight tyranny, rise up, band together in rag tag militias and buy the freedom, in blood, to found the greatest country the world has ever known, the United States of America. A new country born from persecutions, unfair taxation, and no representation. Sounds familiar?
Our young country would continue to grow and prosper in the face of adversity. A government had to be set up, the Constitution formed from passionate ideas and dreams and hopes from passionate men. The Bill of Rights was added. The fledgling country faced the debt incurred during the Revolution, and immediately foreign policy problems had to be dealt with.
As settlers streamed into frontier lands in western New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and other as yet unsettled and un-named states, armed conflicts with Indians became a part of American history.
Later came such challenges as the debate over the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, and always, the great movement westward toward what Americans named their Manifest Destiny. Texians defined courage and patriotism, sacrifice and indomitable will at the Alamo, burning an unrivaled and epic tale of valor into the history of mankind.
The long years of pre civil war struggle between Free and Slave states, the Abolitionist Movement, the Underground Railroad, Bloody Kansas, finally firing off the first shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter. The battles, wins and losses for both sides, with so many casualties, and particularly in the South, starvation and death brought to civilians struggling just to survive.
The struggles continued with the aftermath of the war and the assassination of President Lincoln. Reconstruction. Hardship, bitter enemies taking perhaps the long way toward rebuilding a bloodied and torn nation. Still more westward expansion.
Canals dug, railroad lines built, mining strikes, economic crises. Disease, famine, natural disasters. Epic villains, from the Barbary pirates to the Russians and British (again!) in the Northwest to Spain and Mexico in the South and Southwest and California.
Gold rushes and land rushes. Riches discovered, fortunes made, destinies sought and found. From the Bread Basket to the Dust Bowl, with World Wars and Asian conflicts, the Great Depression between wars, Americans kept thriving, eventually even winning the race to put a man on the moon.
From our first moments until this very minute, we Americans have fought the battles that are ours to fight, poured out our blood, sweat, and tears in rivers of sacrifice.
Hundreds of peoples we are, from the Indians of the Americas, the Europeans who crossed oceans, the Asians, Africans through slavery and later those who came seeking a better life, peoples from every continent and probably almost every country, we have formed this great and wonderful land and our people, Americans, encompassing every race, religion, and ethnicity known to mankind.
It was never easy, but it was always worth it.
Don’t you dare give up on us now. The best is yet to come, and if we have to bleed and sweat a little, well, it isn’t anything we haven’t done before. Today say your prayers and thank God for those who came before and pray for the courage to honor them in our time and with our own courage, will, and sacrifice. Liberty is not sold cheaply, ever.
It is Thanksgiving Day and we are a grateful people and a grateful nation. Let us celebrate that, especially today.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all. This is definitely my favorite day of the year.
God has given me everything I need by being born in the greatest country on earth.
happy thanksgiving from the UK. I too am thankful. Will enjoy Trumps second term
MAGA
Happy Thanksgiving Menagerie and Sundance and all our Patriotic Treepers
Thank you for your wonderful post Menagerie
It’s always a special occasion when you post
Happy Thanksgiving to you and all here at Treehouse
As a Canadian I am wishing my loving neighbors a Blessed Thanksgiving. Many of us have family and friends in America and today our thoughts and prayers are with them and you. In previous years we were able to go and celebrate with them, however this year is not one of them. God Bless.
Rush Limbaugh program usually has a piece on Thanksgiving, worth listening to.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ONE & ALL
GOD BLESS THE USA
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for this beautiful post, Menagerie. A much-needed reminder of all that has gone into shaping our country. We forget it/forget to pass it on, to our peril….
And great thanks for your continuing recovery from injury, pain, suffering, and occasional despair.
God bless everyone here.
Amen Menagerie, great post and timely at that. We can complain and wander in the desert for 40 years or we can believe God’s Word -“we are able to take it”.
We are told God causes it to rain on the just and the unjust. And also that “in this world ye SHALL have tribulation” but be of good courage for He has overcome the world. In spite of everything, we are blessed and have much to be thankful for.
“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
“But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ, and may be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Press on and give thanks treepers! Happy Thanksgiving!
This may be my favorite of your posts, Menagerie. You’re blessed to have a husband, children, and family. Like you, this has been a horrific year for me, and the health issues are only being uncovered. (Covid ruined regular healthcare this whole year.)
My closest loved ones have also had awful problems this year. It’s been horrible for so many of us, whether medically, financially, or both.
And yet, this Thanksgiving holiday means much to me, as I’m a Mayflower descendant. What those people (my own ancestors) went through makes my plight pale in comparison. They lived much harder. They fought much harder.
As a teen, my mother (a genealogist) made a mission to visit their graves when we went east to attend my brother’s West Point graduation. It was a colossal search, amidst overgrown gravesites. I will never forget the search, and the feeling of finding some of those old graves. I’ll never forget that we searched so hard for some we couldn’t find.
Those patriots are not forgotten by me, and their spirit lives on in me. As it does with all patriotic Americans – whether by birth, or by choosing to come to the best, most free nation on earth. We are all ONE in this blessed day of giving thanks to be Americans.
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Thank God.
This is Menagerie’s thread. Did you read her post at all?
“I found out this year that I had never really made an acquaintance with suffering, and long term severe pain, and I’ll just tell you straight up that I wish that had continued.
I mention my injury because it does lead to my point. Even in the midst of pain and near despair, I had to recognize that my blessings were many, and many of them came to me directly because of my injury. From moments after I had my fall,”
I had a bad fall myself, in Sept. 1995. Got too close to a 4800 volt line, zapped off ladder, fell 30 feet to sloped roof.
Impact with roof shattered ankles and ripped feet half off before tumbling another 10 feet to the ground.
Helicopter ride to trauma center, etc.
Fortunately, wheelchair was temporary, not on transplant list for liver/kidney damage due to high voltage, etc.
Ankle replacement done on left side back in 2009, I need one now for the right side. Not going to happen soon, “virus” you know. I can’t even get scheduled for a colonoscopy I am 11 yrs overdue for.
That was the fastest answer to prayer I ever had. When I was being electrocuted near the top of the power pole (holding an old metal case grounded drill), I prayed,
“LORD, is it time for me to be with you yet?”
I knew what was happening, nut powerless to do anything about it. After that, everything went black and when I opened my eyes, I was laying in the garden looking up from where I fell from.
I had been putting up a replacement photocell controlled yard light. I had a taller ladder this time, the higher you put it, the better the coverage.
I am dealing with prostate cancer now. Not aggressive, but I have to address it. The younger you are if you elect to have surgery, the more favorable the outcome without deleterious side effects.
Recently I came across a promising laser proceedure, but it is not covered by insurance yet.
Regardless, I will be all right. I have the ability to endure by staying in the Word of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 KJV
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Please see my posts on the Open Thread today:
Our Weakness and God’s Power & Hope Through Suffering
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/26/thursday-november-26th-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-9237094
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/26/thursday-november-26th-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-9237104
I know a doctor in Atlanta who has phenomenal success in treating prostate cancer in a much less invasive way. If you are interested email me at the Reagan.com address.
Prayers for you, especially that you are able to get treatments and tests soon.
I will do that.
Thank you & thanks to the other commenters below, offering their advice, prayers and support.
Would you mind sharing how the ankle replacement went for you, just in case that becomes a possibility I have to look at?
It went well. After my accident in 1995, the quality of the ankle replacements was not on par with those for the hip and knee. Arthrodesis (ankle fusion) was the quick and dirty fix for a stable pain-free ankle. However, down the road it causes problems elsewhere because of additional stress on nearby joints due to the lack of motion.
I will have my phone number in the email, too many other details to include here
From experience I can tell you that cyrotherapy can also be very effective in fighting prostate cancer. The procedure is not invasive, relatively quick and quite effective. It targets those cells and freezes then thaws.. repeating the freeze-thaw cycle. Not only does it kill the cancer cells, it also destroys the tiny blood vessels (capillaries) which are feeding the cancer cells. I would reccommend researching the procedure and talking with your oncologist about its availability and effacacy.
That is one of the many things I am thankful for this Thanksgiving. Despite the many unpleasant happenings in our world, there is still so very much which upliefts us and sustains us. Thank you, Lord.. and thanks to all of the treepers
Is it cold laser treatment? This is not necessarily a new treatment but I do think many docs (and veterinarians) a just recently discovering how beneficial it truly is.
https://www.erchonia.com/physician-search/
I will add you to my prayer list.
Here is a little information on the procedure I had done. My surgery was almost six years ago and I have been cancer tree since then. The procedure uses Argon gas to freeze the cells, destroying the cancer cells.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/surgery/cryosurgery-fact-sheet
In just a few hours, my family will gather in Texas, all 20 of us. We will give thanks to God! Thank him for the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We will not let let the election or covid put a damper on this holiday. We will pray for a Trump victory.
Awesome reminder of our nation to encourage us to remember our place now in history. To
remain faithful to God, stand for him, our nation & others. The story came to mind about Joshua, when he led the ppl to the promise land. At some point some chose to remain with the belongings instead of going into that particular battle. Joshua said they all would have a share in the spoils. The ones guarding the “luggage” so to speak, were as needed as the ones who were more directly involved in the battle.
God Bless & Happy Thanksgiving, Menagerie, Sundance, Team & all those in the tree house. Also, God speed healing for all who have need!
Today we pray, in thanksgiving, in hope, in preparation.
Happy Thanksgiving to our American cousins.
Thankful for the two little girls, 6 and 11, I’ve been nurturing for months and teaching them how to bake. Their parents have no papers, but the girls are US citizens. When the situation is a lemon, make lemonade. Two more Conservatives on our team.
God bless you and of course, He is. By your actions you are showing this family what “America” means.
God bless us everyone!!!!
Menagerie, that was just beautiful and so true! My husband and I had some very tough years when we were first married (almost 36 years strong now). My husband was raised in a very poor household. I could tell you stories of him eating dog food and stale donuts, lard sandwiches, sitting around an open stove for heat because it was their only source. He is my hero. I, on the other hand was not raised in a poor household. We weren’t trust fund babies but we had more than we needed and really more than we wanted. When we were first married a series of events happened that took the bottom out from under us and being newly married we didn’t have anything to fall back on. We would not go to our parents for help, we both were absolutely together on that score. Long story short, my kitchen counter consisted of 4 boxes and the leaf to my table. I did dishes in the bathtub for two years. (I thank God everyday for my dishwasher.) We did eventually finish renovating our little 3 season cottage.
Anyhow, getting to your point about being thankful for where God has you no matter what, that is what the Lord taught me. I was crying and whining to Him like a baby and He told me to be content with were I was. Wow, that stopped me in my tracks. The Lord taught me a lot about being content in Him, not my circumstances. Thankful for what I have not yearning for more.
My husband and I have been truly blessed by God over the years. He NEVER leaves us or forsakes us. Sometimes I am just in awe of my Heavenly Father and think “who is man that though are mindful of him.”
Happy Thanksgiving to all my wonderful treeper friends!
Wow kayray444, that scripture impacted me much over the many years and it is a wondrous thing that particular verses of the Word reaches down into the hearts of believers throughout generations and in every corner of the world to impact their lives at a specific point of time.
Psalms 8:4
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?”
Job 7:17 – What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
And for all treepers who are in hard places, dire circumstances, even mourning;
1 Peter 5:7
“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”
If God be for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:35 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus.”
And finally;
John 16:33 KJV: These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Happy Thaksgiving cousins
Blessed be.
Happy Thanksgiving from Bavaria.
Not celebrated here, of course, but I lived in Green Bank, WV from 1960 to 1970. I was blessed to have had a happy childhood there, building strange toys from discarded bits of NRAO telescopes, and playing in the woods behind the house.
Many times we would find Indian arrowheads, along the cliffs of Deer Creek or in the once ploughed fields in the Recreation Area.
We felt the continuity of all life, though we knew it not at the time.
Now, aged 60, I am again blessed with a wonderful two year old son, and will endeavor to instill in him that same sense of awe for his fortuitous presence in time and space.
I give thanks to those intrepid pilgrims and settlers who led to his constellation, and to the more luckless Natives, who helped our spiritual forebears survive, at great cost to themselves, further along the line.
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Menagerie.you know what is so wonderful about you,read what people are saying.You bring the best out of people.G_D Bless you and your family and have very Happy Thanksgiving.
My parents, of the Greatest Generation, had four kids and lived a serious and simple life. Every year when we sat down for Thanksgiving dinner, my dad would survey all the food and say, “I wonder what the poor people are doing?” Then he’d laugh and start passing the plates.
Thanksgiving + GOD = Knowing where ALL my blessings have come from.
To HIM be the Glory.
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Well said.
We owe others alot
And Christ above all
Happy Thanksgiving. I hope there will be more to be thankful about in the next two months.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on every branch and beyond, we have much to be thankful for including having found each other. We’ll have a peaceful time with friends and family. Please stay happy and please stay safe.
Not so bitter clinger
This is humbling. And beautiful. Thank you.
A Blessed Thanksgiving to you and yours!
“Let All Things Now Living”
“Let All Things Now Living”
Katherine K. Davis
A song of thanksgiving
To God our Creator triumphantly raise
Who fashioned and made us,
Protected and stayed us,
By guiding us on to the end of our days.
God’s banners are o’er us,
Pure light goes before us,
A pillar of fire shining forth in the night:
Till shadows have vanished
And darkness is banished,
As forward we travel from light into Light.
His law he enforces,
The stars in their courses,
The sun in its orbit obediently shine,
The hills and the mountains,
The rivers and fountains,
The depths of the ocean proclaim God divine.
We, too, should be voicing
Our love and rejoicing
With glad adoration, a song let us raise:
Till all things now living
Unite in thanksgiving,
To God in the highest, hosanna and praise.
Happy Thanksgiving to all my Treepers, Sundance, Menagerie, and Staff
Enjoy your day with family and friends.
We are truly Blessed
Tea
Happy Thanksgiving to all Treepers.
Psalm 100
A Psalm of thanksgiving.
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth.
Serve the LORD with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs.
Know that the LORD is God.
It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.
For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever;
His faithfulness continues to all generations.
Menagerie, all my love and prayers of continued strength to you as you continue to recover from the effects of your fall. God bless your dear hubby and family.
I wish you and your family and all Treepers a very blessed Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving to all our American friends, wherever you may be today!
Wonderful post, Menagerie. We must be reminded at time that, no matter what trials and suffering we are enduring, God is always there, and with Him and in Him there is always hope.
Thank you, Menagerie, for this heartwarming post.
Happy Thanksgiving Day from your friends in England.
Looking forward to Donald J Trump taking the oath on January 20 2021
To all my American family and friends I wish you a day of peaceful retrospection amidst those you love and hold dear. We have a lot of work to do in the coming years to keep the freedom to do just that but this group are up for the task. And with Sundance at the helm it will be a fight to the finish. Happy Thanks Giving Day.
A very Happy Thanksgiving Day to all!
Menagerie, so sorry to read all that you have been through…lots of prayers for full recovery!
Your beautiful words are truly inspiring to us all!
I awake each day and give thanks to the Good Lord above that I live free in the greatest country on earth!
But today is special – this Thanksgiving there is so much to be thankful for. We, many of us, of ignorance, are able to see today, in our modern lives, the incredible genius and morality of our magnificent Founders. It was THEY who made America Great in the first place!
We are extremely grateful a man called Trump has led us back to this greatness. May it be they will he continue.
We also pray this day for ALL who serve selflessly in uniform – keep them safe!
Thank you to all who occupy this Treehouse and God Bless America!
Menagerie! Happy Thanksgiving to you, Sundance, AdRem and many more who keep This Last Refuge working for us.
Great post this morning. Thank you.
To all my Treeper Fellows: Happy Thanksgiving to all of us here.
It’s been a curious year. Many setbacks and unhappy happenings but we are still here. Thankful for Love from and for our family and loved ones, enduring Friendships, our Country that gives us many things.
Now I am getting up, teaching my 3 grandkids, twins 12 and sister 10 how to make crepes. A good start of the day.
It’ll be a little messy but hubby ❤️ is manning the sink and the sponge. As he always does. Saying Thank You to him last but not least.
God Bless you and your family, Menegarie. We here at The Last Refuge commenting community love and appreciate you all. I will keep your good health and healing in my prayers. Happy Thanksgiving to you.
“Happy-Thanksgiving”… I’m Grateful You People Are All Here To Help Me Start My Day’s…. For SD’s “Pancake-Recipe” That Pulled This Lurker Out Of The Shadow’s And Into The Fight. Now For A Day Of Prayer, Food & Fellowship.. God Bless You All. Enjoy!…..
God bless all.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Great post from one who does remember what Thanksgiving (even before Black Friday and CyberMonday were “things”) used to be like…and about. I yearn for those halcyon days that I doubt will ever return.
Thank you, Menagerie, as always, your posts are beautiful and from the heart. And your recap of what America has accomplished is a timely reminder of who we are — “we’re Americans, we got this”.
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock they signed the Mayflower Compact aboard the ship. This was the first charter of freedom in America and ensures self-government and shows our Christian heritage. If not for the delays in setting sail for America and the stormy weather that drove them off course, they would have landed within the jurisdiction of the London Company and would not have had the opportunity of forming their own Compact. Upon landing at Plymouth Rock, the Pilgrims dedicated North America to Christ. 12/21/20 will be the 400th anniversary of that event. Miracles would not surprise me.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I have a long list of things I’m grateful for and it includes the Treehouse and all Treepers. We are so blessed!
Retired Magistrate here: This is the day that the LORD has made we shall rejoice and be glad in it!
Menagerie prayers that your healing continues. Long term pain can really do a number on the psyche; you are now on our prayer list.
Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving and be thankful that we live in this freedom loving country.
Happy Thanksgiving
I’m so thankful to have found this today – your story really touched my heart this morning.
Happy Thanksgiving to our Treehouse community! May you all have a blessed day.
And continued prayers for your recovery, Menagerie.
A fine and benchmark piece of writing. Thank you.