November 29, 2019 – Click here to listen
I must confess to the sin of gluttony today. Turkey and other Thanksgiving fare is my favorite meal. It is such an ordeal to cook, my wife will not prepare it but once or twice a year and though I hate that, it’s probably a good thing because I would weigh in at 400 ponds on the hoof.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving albeit just one son and his family were able to honor us with their presence this year along with my wife’s sister and her husband, but rest assured we had a very good time.
I was reading this morning about all those people protesting Thanksgiving. Geez are these people ever happy? I’d hate to be that miserable and/or have so little to do. Protesting the Thanksgiving holiday? Geez . . . Com’on!
It reminds me of a time when I was a small kid. I put on a party and a bunch of kids came over and we were all having fun dancing in my garage. My next door neighbor was a shy introverted kid and I was his only friend. He was a nerdy type and very smart. He loved science projects and was good in school. I tried and tried to get him to come to my party, but he wouldn’t. Instead, midway into the party he lobbed a homemade stink bomb over the fence. It smelled like rotten eggs and I suppose he got his jollies off by trying to ruin everyone’s good time.
We all had to run out of the garage and outside into my backyard to escape the scent and smoke. I yelled over the fence that if he did that again I would come over there and beat the crap out of him, and I know he heard me because I heard his back door shut as he raced back inside his house.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this dude was among those who protest everything. I hope not. Some folks are just miserable, and they want everyone else to be miserable too. We will likely hear it again this Christmas when the atheists come out with a goal of taking Christ out of Christmas, replacing it with X’mas and I’m sure they will protest nativity scenes with vigor.
I was scheduled to go to the Trump rally in Fort Lauderdale with some friends but had to cancel due to my family arriving from Atlanta. I asked my buddy the next day if any protestors were there and he said a small number were in a parking lot by themselves howling away but he barely noticed them. He had a great time while the boo-birds remained in their assigned area in a parking lot and hurled their human stink bomb insults from outside.
As for me I’m looking forward to some leftover turkey sandwiches today. And I will be sure and bless this meal and thank God for all that He does and has done in my life, especially in allowing me to be born in such a great country!
Psalm 7:17
I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness;
I will sing the name of the Lord Most High.
Have a great weekend and go to church this Sunday!