Counting your blessings

  How many of you are anxiously anticipating thanksgiving? In a mere 36 days, family will be gathered around old and new traditional meals. Little people will be learning family traditions, and everyone will be making core memories. 

   However, in the middle of all this joy, someone will be battling a broken heart. There will be an empty seat at the table, magnifying the hole in our heart. We have to take this time to honor that persons memory. A grandmother, a grandfather, a parent, a sibling, a child…that hurt makes us feel as if we cannot bear to engage in the laughter and traditions that someone else started. 

   Psalm 100:4 tells us “Enter His gates with thanksgiving; go into His courts with praise, Give thanks to Him and praise His name.” 

  The Lord is in that moment holding your hand, and healing your heart. He wants you to remember, and in doing so you can draw closer to Him by praise and thanksgiving. Take some time to speak about the angel of your family, honoring their memory. It’s ok to hurt, and it’s ok to show emotions.