Did you have any unplanned incidents happen over the past few days before as you were preparing, or at least trying to prepare for Thanksgiving day?
Maybe a problem with a relative that you expected to come to dinner, but wasn't exactly sure if they would show up? And what might happen, if they would?
Maybe your washer broke and water went all over your garage floor and you didn't know it because it happened while you were running an errand.
Maybe the cake (scratch) you made the morning of Thanksgiving didn't quite turn out the way you wanted it to.
Well, let me clue you in on something. All three of those things happened during our Thanksgiving preparations.
The worse of the three was the relative that we weren't sure would show up. And if that person didn't, it was possible that their family wouldn't either.
I must admit, I was not in an overly festive mood because I really wanted them to come and for it to be a peaceful and happy time. The night before, I went to bed pleading for God to intervene in it. But I wasn't sure he would. (Oh, ye of little faith...)
The second worse thing was on Tuesday when we came home from running those errands. You see our garage is attached right off of our living room. My hubby had taken our dogs out to do their business and it was I who heard a strange noise in the garage. He came in about that time, and I told him about it. Yep, our washer had filled up and was not spinning out, and water was making our floor into a pond. Oh, no. Another problem to deal with and right now no resources to do anything about it. God, why?
And then the last thing was that cake. I was up Thanksgiving morning at 4 a.m. I was not really wide awake and the icing I made for it was too thin. You could see the cake through it. Well, I didn't question God on this one, but I wasn't in a much better mood than when I went to bed the night before.
Still, God heard my pleas that night. Because guess what?
Our relatives did show up for Thanksgiving. They enjoyed it, and so did we. There was no arguing. It had been a happy and peaceful time.
The washer did get water on the garage floor, and so we used towels to soak it up. And the next day (Wednesday), our daughter and her husband came up and helped clean up what little it really had done and they gathered up the towels to take home to wash. Disaster adverted to a more convenient time, preparations went on.
And as for that cake. Well, I just made another batch of icing and it turned out fine. Most of it was eaten, and some were taken home to eat later. And there is very little left for us, which made me happy because they liked it.
So these things happened while trying to get ready for a day of Thanksgiving. So what? There are so many other people that have gone through much worse this week than what we did. I had nothing to complain about.
But I do contribute the peace and happy time we had yesterday, were mine to take hold of because I turned to God early on and did not forget that he is my Source. And He could get us through.
Which he did. All praise be to him alone!
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
Thanks for coming by. God bless you!
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