I enjoyed several days with my kids and grandkids here on the farm. We enjoy meals together, many games of Contract Rummy and Spinner, and sharing memories of Dad and Grandpa. Everyone has safely returned home and back to school and work, and Molly and I are slowly adjusting to being by ourselves again. It was too quiet after everyone went home. Molly had two other dogs to play with and missed them, too.
So, Thanksgiving Day has come and gone but my thanksgiving has not. I continue to be grateful for life here on the farm. I enjoy the open space and mountain scenes. I’m thankful for substitute teaching days and the opportunity to touch a child’s life. (And I don’t have to write lesson plans and grade papers!) I’m thankful for the Internet and for a computer to connect with my far-away friends. And I am most thankful for the Word of God.
“Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God” (2 Corinthians 9:10-11).
As I read this passage of Scripture this week I thought it would be a good motto for the new year. (Can another year be ending already?!) God provides. God increases. I am enabled to be generous only because of God’s generosity and the result is thanksgiving to God.
I also noticed these verses are not just talking about material blessings. God enlarges the harvest of my righteousness. May I never forget that God makes me righteous through the sacrifice of His Son and the indwelling of His Spirit! Thanks be to God for His amazing grace!