That Word!

Anticipation waits in a stockpiled mess and thaws like the turkey in our refrigerator. Gathered in heaps of preparation by collected menu items and the day comes on some common word. Simple letters together but collectively they bring praise. How I want to take this day and remember it for the word it is? Thanksgiving comes and we know this season and celebrate.

Attention to time and place set aside to come together and we carry on the week. Fellowship passes, until each the place they'll gather. It isn't far from our thoughts and so we meditate and plan table spreads to come. Centered 'round food and abundance spilling from oven, we're breaking this bread of thanks.

My thoughts ticking off the days of cleaning, preparing and scheduling time for the day. I can't help but think of thanks and the giving and wanting to take this day all year. The blessings heaping tables and reminding me those which heap a life. And fellowship shared by communion together as we walk in it through life. And thawing out thanks reminds me how it really feeds a soul. The tables will clear, the dishes will pile, the stomach will stretch and we'll fill up on giving thanks, this nourishment of gratitude. And how easy it is to give it on this day which carries the word.

Happy Thanksgiving.

I also shared this at Emily's "Chatting At the Sky" and I'm unwrapping the word of thanksgiving.