Today I am thankful for those who have served and are serving in our military.
What are you thankful for today?
Today I am thankful for those who have served and are serving in our military.
What are you thankful for today?
I’m grateful our friends were able to pick us up because our van had stopped working. We had planned a visit with them and it was great to get to see them for a short visit while they were in town. I’m also thankful that our van started again and we were able to drive…
On this Veteran’s Day, I am thankful for the peace that we enjoy due to those who have served to make it that way. Many in the world are running from war and looking for a place of safety and peace. May we who are in peaceful nations be grateful that we can remain…
Today, I am thankful for the extra help that Wren and Ezrom gave me in the garden and cleaning in the library. What are you thankful for today?
Last night I went to bed and fell asleep right away, so I did not get my post up. Tonight’s post is for yesterday and today. I am thankful for social media. A lot is said about the negative sides of social media, but I have found there is a lot of good if we…
I’m thankful for my eldest daughter, who offered to make dinner tonight. What are you grateful for today?
I am thankful that my husband figured out a less expensive solution for me to use what I already have to make it work better for me. I was considering a purchase that would be beautiful and useful for my business but would also take up space we don’t have. My husband figured out a…
I am grateful that I am an American. I truly believe that America is the greatest country with the most advantaged citizens.
Brandy, I am thankful for our military as well. I think often of our soldiers in far away places, but I think equally as often about the families that stay behind and do without their loved ones near. A true sacrifice.
I am thankful for your blog as well. It is absolutely beautiful. You have inspired me so much. You have added much to my home, from using my homegrown basil for pesto, to fitting in a meal of beans for the sake of frugality to the zinnias growing in my front yard. I actually went to Wildseed Farms and purchased my zinnia seeds-beautiful place! I also planted beets and lettuce in my front yard this year! Thanks for the inspiration.
I am thankful for my husbands job and his willingness to work hard for our family, allowing me to stay home with our children . I feel I never had to miss any of their special moments all these years due to his hard work .
I am thankful that we were able to attend a program at our kids school honoring the veterans. Out 16 yo is in the band and choir. They did a great job!! I like seeing the children being taught to honor and respect the soldiers. There were many older veterans there as well as a few “kids” who joined the military after graduating in the past few years. Several of the teachers are former military. Thank you to them all.
I am also grateful for our freedoms, & for those who gave their lives that we might have them.
I am grateful for our freedoms and the men and women, past and present, who have given so much to provide them. Mary is correct that it is very hard on the families left behind, as well.
Today we visited the Holocaust Museum. I am thankful to those who suffered such horrible atrocities at the hands of others were willing to share their stories so that future generations could learn and appreciate why we should never ever forget the evils inflicted on them. I am thankful to the soldiers from all countries who fought so bravely and were able to liberate the concentration camps, freeing them from the shear hell they were forced to live in. I am thankful those who did survive were able to honor those who didn’t in their own personal way. Your losses were tremendous and my heart weeps for you.
I’m not a terribly patriotic person. Rememberance Day fills me with an overwhelming sorrow for the futility of war; and heartache for boys who were too young to really understand what they were signing up for. And so instead I remember the words of Rudyard Kipling:
The tumult and the shouting dies—
The Captains and the Kings depart—
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
All this week I’ve been working on a Christmas essay for a friend. As I read the New Testament story, and various commentary on it from a wide number of religious denominations – protestant, Catholic, LDS, Jewish, Muslim – I am filled with a deep and abiding gratitude for that ancient sacrifice. I see through a glass darkly – but even these small glimpses fill me with awe. And so with Rudyard Kipling I sing:
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet; Judge of the Nations, spare us yet; Lest we forget, lest we forget.