Our Thanksgiving family tradition is to place five popcorn kernels at each place setting. Before the meal, we pass a small bowl around the table and take turns sharing five things from our list of Thanksgivings for that year. History reports say the pilgrims who survived the first winter in New England had such meager rations there was a point when each person had only five kernels of corn a day. Not only do the five kernels remind us of desperate times early European settlers endured prior to the first Thanksgiving, these small seeds also remind each of us to take a few moments to pause and reflect with thankful hearts to God for His abundant blessings. A few of the 85 thanksgivings mentioned around our table this year included school, family, jobs, Jesus, a chicken house, a work shop, spouses, soccer, a garden, prisoners, a smoked turkey, and a dog.
My five kernels of thanks
1) being together with family
2) the Cookie House
3) my job, friends, and life in Zambia
4) opportunities we have to be part of God's global family--
because that gives us a little flavor of what heaven will be like
5) American ice cream
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