Pilgrims and Thanksgiving

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves that huts.  No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.  H. U.  Westermayer

Today's post is  in gratitude for the Pilgrims who started the Thanksgiving tradition here in North America.    A tradition where we  gather together with family and friends  around a table filled with an  abundance of food.  How lucky we are in to live here!

Today I took the time to look  through the flyers that arrived the other day in the mail and there was one from World Vision with a variety of gifts to purchase for families struggling in impoverished countries.  To gift a family with a goat or chickens so that they could have food.  To gift a family with mosquito nets so children could sleep at night without worrying about getting malaria.  The gift of medicine, school supplies...the list goes on and on....the recipients  so grateful for things that we take for granted. What a stark contrast from our tables laden  with so much food .  Thanksgiving should be a daily event, just as  the joy and giving  at Christmas-time should continue throughout the year.

In gratitude for the abundance  in my life,
Marg