HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2010, FELLOW CANADIANS

Here we are..October 10, 2010...our Canadian Thanksgiving Sunday. While cooking my turkey on Saturday, so as to cut down on the rush of preparing  Thansgiving dinner after arriving home later than usual from attending my Sunday Thanksgiving church service, as well as  get the gravy made and roasting pan and all other utensils put away, making more room in my kitchen for Sunday....was thinking...

"My gosh, where did the past twelve months go?

Is that a sign of my ever increasing old age, or is it just a matter of life...each year slipping by. Seems the world is moving too quickly at times and I sometimes get the feeling to call out:

"Stop the world, I want to get off".

Alas, such is not possible.

Was just writing cheques for my church envelopes  for the morning and thinking of our local food bank..and with the cooling temperatures, thinking of so many unfortunate souls who find themselves not only homeless but hungry as well. So out comes my pen and cheque book to write another cheque for our local food bank and put a few more cans into the bags I will be taking with me in the morning for our church to give to this bank.

Thanksgiving is definitely the time of year we should take a extra deep look into our own lives and although it is simply a flaw of being human that  we often find ourselves grumbling and complaining about many things that are really of no significance in the big scheme of life..we should take several moments to  give thanks for the many blessings we all do enjoy...the blessings of having food, clothing and shelter (often in more abundance than we really need), surrounded by love of family and friends. These are what I would call our 'personal blessings", but as well for the blessing of our accident of birth to be born in this, our great nation of Canada. Peoples throughout the world are in many instances dying in their attempts to come to our Canadian shores, to be accepted and to begin new lives for themseles and families here with the rest of us who have been born here and who often take our Canadian citizenship for granted.

These were simply some thoughts running through my head at this time, that I would like to share......we must remember always "we are truly our brother's keeper" and try to always live our lives accordingly...looking out for and assisting those in need. May I just say that lack of food, clothing and shelter is sometimes not the "need"..for many it is simply to be accepted into society and to be considered "valuable" as an individual regarless of our many handicaps for I personally believe we are all handicapped in some way or other..in some instances, the handicapped is easily recognized, other times it is not..it is well hidden behind a shield put up as a defensive mechanism.

Do you find yourself with a freezing-on-the-spot fear of snakes, or spiders, of riding elevators, of climbing heights...these are all handicaps, but rarely recognized as is a mental or physical handicap.

Simply trying to say: Give thanks for your blessings always...not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of every year that we live on this earth.

Again, wishing a most happy and blessed Thanksgiving to all fellow proud Canadians.

So long for now....and please pop in again whenever the urge hits you

You are most welcome always.