Category Archives: Thanksgiving 2021

2021, Romans, Thanksgiving 2021

Memories

22 Nov 2021 Kathie Whitestone Thompson Leave a comment

Memories.
I’m giving thanks for memories.
And the gray matter that holds them for me. :)
You know what they say: “a mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

I have particularly thought of my Momma this evening.
We attended a wedding. There was music. She loved music.
She had a natural rhythm.

Memories.
Treasure them.
And mind your mind.

⁵For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
⁶For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
⁷Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
⁸So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. source

1 Corinthians, 2021, Gospel of Mark, Thanksgiving 2021

Where are my Glasses?

21 Nov 2021 Kathie Whitestone Thompson Leave a comment

I am grateful for corrective lens.

Without them, my view from my dining table is color in vague shapes.

Oh, I can see well enough to get around in familiar places but there is so much I miss this way. I am reminded of the man who went to JESUS for his sight.

Men walking like trees – is that what he said? See Mark 8:24.

Corrective Lens

That’s one thing earth man crafted very well.
Albeit even these well-crafted lenses will not enable me to truly see my fellow man or this created world as I am meant to see.
I need the CREATOR HIMSELF for that.
JESUS.
The True Corrector of my sight.

Has He begun to correct your sight?

2021, Genesis, Thanksgiving 2021

Celery

20 Nov 2021 Kathie Whitestone Thompson 4 Comments

Evidence. I am giving thanks for evidence.
Evidence. Such a wonderful gift!

Life is evidence. Evidence that GOD is.

Here life is spouting again.
A stalk of celery. Seeds were planted, they spouted and matured, and then came the harvest; cleaned and bagged and delivered to me; washed, cut and stored away – all but the base.

Water and sunshine. And life begins again.
ONLY GOD!

^{Genesis 1:}¹¹God said, “Let the earth put forth grass, seed-producing plants, and fruit trees, each yielding its own kind of seed-bearing fruit, on the earth”; and that is how it was. ¹²The earth brought forth grass, plants each yielding its own kind of seed, and trees each producing its own kind of seed-bearing fruit; and God saw that it was good. source

And today His Plan is still operating and it shall continue.
Popular as the strivings of man may be — NO ONE overthrows GOD.

And for this, I give much thanks!

May my celery remind you that you may be cut down and thought to be stored away BUT GOD gives new life, new growth, and second chances!

2021, Pictures, Thanksgiving 2021

A Hint of Red

19 Nov 2021 Kathie Whitestone Thompson Leave a comment

The smell of rain and a hint of red is bringing on my thanks.

Peace
Contentment
Without a doubt, gifts to be treasured.
Yet by no amount of striving do we earn them, GOD bestows them, that we may gladly receive.

Such is this day, Today.

The morning was graced with fellowship sweet — two younger sisters of faith, our Bibles open, paper and pens and so there we were each poised to learn.
Our lunch was waiting on the counter warm since with them it had arrived – meat and potatoes, I added soft wheat bread on the side.
Yum and yummy, all satisfied; every dish washed to air dry — oh no it can’t be that time – not necessary adieus so soon.

Two lawn chairs he did place under the back stoop roof
for a little smell of rain and a hint of red.