Just What I Needed

The last few weeks have just been an almost out of control blur.  Yesterday was yet another crazy busy day.  I went into Lexington to help a friend with Thanksgiving services at four area hospitals. After playing We Gather Together and Come, Ye Thankful People, Come over and over and over and over, I'm thankful that it's almost time for some Christmas hymns ;-).

In lieu of a "sermon", everyone who wanted to could contribute what they were thankful for.  It was interesting to sit behind my piano and listen.  Of course family was high up on everyone's list. Having work, support from co-workers, friends, health, making it through challenging times, getting up everyone morning, enjoying the sunrises and the sunsets...  I hope the few people who didn't speak up were just too shy. 

I'd managed to dig out a pair of un-muddy shoes, pressed a clean pair of khakis, picked all the hay off my sheep sweater (I've been known to "bring a bit of the manger with me" to church on Sundays ;-). I shook hands, made small talk, pretty much looked like I fit in, but I never really do feel like that when I'm in town. A country mouse in the city.

When I got home I changed back into my barn clothes and muddy boots.  The dogs raced me to the gate and we headed out for a walk in the back field.  It had been a beautiful day...and I'd been cooped up in too many, too hot, too crowded rooms.  I stood up on the hill and took a deep breath. And another.  And thought about all the things I was thankful for.  And realized that, really, we weren't all that different.

Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

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Beautiful sunrises and sunsets
Friends who like to take walks at the end of a busy day
Green grass at the end of  November
A barn full of hay for when that grass is covered in snow
Too much work to do - because that beats not enough to do...or so I'm told ;-)
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What's on your list?