A Thanksgiving Lesson from Grandma

A Thanksgiving Memory from Grandma

Memory Lane: When I was a child, we always had cats. They all lived outdoors, and some of them were pretty rough. My grandmother always fussed at them and called them some rather *inappropriate* names. As for the cats, they adored her! 

Then would come Thanksgiving, and Grandma would take the turkey giblets (which we wouldn’t touch with a 10′ pole), and season and cook them up for the cat! Her answer to the obvious question was, “That poor little animal deserves some Thanksgiving, too.”

You Can’t See a Heart

Two things come to mind here:

1) My grandmother had a much more tender heart than she was willing to display most of the time, and

2) I wonder if our cats today know just how good they have it … 

A Lesson Learned

Matthew 6:25-26: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”

Thanksgiving is a time to give out of our abundance, whatever that might look like, to receive out of our need, whatever that might look like, and to thank God for His glorious plan that weaves all of us together in an intricate, inclusive pattern that looks like Him–love!

“Give thanks to the Lord for He is good. His steadfast love endures forever” (Psalm 136:1).

Have a blessed Thanksgiving, my friends! Remember, whatever your day looks like, whatever your circumstances are, “you deserve some Thanksgiving, too.” I have it on the best authority.