It’s Thanksgiving again.
The beautiful fall colors on the hills contrasted against the gloomy sky as I walked to school. Raindrops ran down my glasses, in perfect symbolism of the way I felt inside. I wished that I could crawl into a ball under my sheets and not come out all day, instead of going to school on a holiday. I’ve always loathed this part of TCK experience, the holidays where I feel lonely in my celebration because my family can’t be here with me.
I dread this time every year.
After we moved overseas, it became a day of ungratefulness instead of thanksgiving. Yet, that’s not the point of this holiday. As I continued walking to school, it hit me that I should be concentrating on my blessings instead of on the bad parts of being a TCK, and how much I miss them.
So I started to do just that, by saying thank you to God for creating the colors of the trees and a season as beautiful as fall. My day turned up a little and didn’t seem as bleak anymore.
I want to invite you to come on this journey with me this Thanksgiving by concentrating on the blessings and seeking to bless God’s name for all of the good, because there is so much good! No matter how hard the holiday season is, try and find a few good things to be thankful for.
“Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.”
Psalms 100:4 (NIV)
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