THANKSGIVING TRADITION - WMUU - for Thursday Nov. 27th 2008

            Happy Thanksgiving Folks –

 

            Be careful. Not too much turkey or the rest of the day will be uncomfortable.

 

            Thanksgiving is my most favorite holiday. There’s pressure to be sure… get the turkey, fix the turkey, mash the potatoes – be sure the cranberry sauce is fixed that special way – along with some pearl onions with shelled peanuts in a white sauce (another tradition we’ve picked up along the way) and some fresh-baked dill bread. (I don’t know just when these came into our menu) but we have a daughter in love – who started us on the dill bread I think. And the Pearl onions mixed with the peanuts was a dish added by Barb’s Mother – Marie – long since with her Lord – and we still miss her but with the sure knowledge we’ll all be re-united IN HIM before long.

 

            Well – you see how quickly I get off the track.

 

            Getting the program ready and all the rest of it becomes a little bit of a bind… but nothing like Christmas… and I seem to enjoy it more each year because it is a bit more relaxed and family friendly – even though getting our family together has become more of a challenge over these many years. Five children – four additional families – thirteen grandchildren with several of them married and now *five* great grandchildren… none of whom we’ll see this Thanksgiving. But… The Lord knows how we miss them all.

 

            Barbara has a brother who lives in Florida – facing some surgery sometime soon… I have a brother who lives in Virginia and we each talk on the phone with our siblings at a marathon length when we sitdown to have a chat. So that’s good. It’s *all* good -- the Lord has blessed us and for that we are thankful. I hope you’re in a similar circumstance. But perhaps you aren’t especially as the years pile up.

 

            May I just remind you of this… Barb and I just read it this morning in a little devotional book called “The Daily Light.”  A verse --  “The Lord delights in you.” – is found in Isaiah 62:4 --  You have [or can have] a friend who ‘sticketh closer than a brother” [Proverbs 18:4b] – There’s always a resource in God and HIS word the Bible. If you don’t have one… contact me through the radio station and I’ll see if I can’t make arrangements to get you one.

 

            Most of all, may you have a Blessed Thanksgiving with the Lord and your Family.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack and Barbara Buttram

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/audio/jama11-27-08.mp3

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/scripts/jamt11-27-08.doc

 

 

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

THANKSGIVING  

 

It’s our Thanksgiving tradition – to hear a portion of The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers  by Felecia Hemans

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The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock-bound coast,
 When a band of Pilgrims moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.

 

Not as the conqueror comes,
They, the true-hearted, came;
Not with the roll of the stirring drums,
And the trumpet that sings of fame:

 

Amidst the storm they sang,
And the stars heard, and the sea;
And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang
To the anthem of the free.

 

Why had they come to wither there,
What sought they thus afar?
Bright jewels of the mine?
 They sought a faith's pure shrine!

 

Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod;
They have left unstained what there they found,
Freedom to worship God.

Have a blessed Thanksgiving  -- I’m Jack Buttram

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