Another Turkey On The Table (standard:humor, 910 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Dec 01 2024	Views/Reads: 47/14	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A thankful heart is a heart that pleases God. I want to please God every day no matter what it costs me. The best way to thank God is to be thankful for all my family and friends. Some of those may not be here next Thanksgiving.

It was a Monday morning, and I was busy starting my week by organizing
my schedule and organizing some of my projects. 

The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage came to my door, looked in, and
said, "Are you ready for the week?" 

I don't recall her ever asking me that question, but I looked at her and
said, "Well, I'm trying to work through my to-do list for the week." 

"You do know what week it is," she said with a friendly smirk. 

I was a little confused because I didn't know what she was getting
after. As far as I'm concerned, a week is a week. 

Then she responded, "This week is Thanksgiving. Are you ready for our
family Thanksgiving dinner?" 

It caught me slightly surprised, and I just looked at her and said, "Oh,
my. I completely forgot that this was Thanksgiving week." 

She laughed and walked out of my office and back to the kitchen, where
she prepared for the family's Thanksgiving dinner. 

I sat back in my chair and thought about this briefly. I could not
believe that it was Thanksgiving again. Didn't we celebrate it last 
year? I thought for a moment and remembered that we did, and we had a 
wonderful time as we gathered around the family table. 

Now, another Thanksgiving. We have Abraham Lincoln to thank for this
national holiday, and I'm grateful. I have no problem with having such 
a holiday in the kind of world that we live in today. It is very hard 
to find anybody who is thankful for anything. 

As I was thinking about it, I realized that time goes quickly. We
celebrated Thanksgiving only 52 weeks ago. I am trying to remember 
those days, and I would have to check my calendar to see what happened 
during those days. But time flies by. 

It's not so much that time flies by as forgetting what's happening. 

I can get up at the beginning of the week and start on Monday, and
before I know it, it's Friday, and I've got to close shop. I guess I 
need to blame my age for that. 

I remember that, as a teenager, time was so slow. I couldn't get it to
speed up and get on the way. I was in 10th grade and couldn't wait to 
get to 12th grade in order to graduate. I'm unsure, but somebody snuck 
in two 11th grades without me knowing it. 

Sitting in my chair, I look back and realize how far I have come.
Thinking along this line, I remembered how a friend used to say, "If 
you could go back in time, where would you go?" 

I often think about that. Every once in a while, I'm reminded of
something that happened 50 years ago. I don't know why it popped into 
my mind at that time. 

Watching something on TV will remind me of something that happened when
I was young. 

If I could see forward as clearly as I see backward, it would truly
change the way I live. But it doesn't work that way. 

I am ready for another turkey on the table this year. I don't have to
look back and think about the turkey on the table last year because I 
can't eat that one. The one I can eat is the one that's going to be on 
the table this coming Thursday. 

Some of the best things about Thanksgiving for me are, of course, the
turkey, but then there is the pumpkin pie. Whoever came up with that 
idea of a pumpkin pie, I would just like to shake their hand and thank 
them for all the good times I had on Thanksgiving with pumpkin pie. 

One of the good things about Thanksgiving is that I can eat and get away
with it. If I had one piece of pumpkin pie, I would say, "Could I have 


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