Thankful For, "Now"..................................

On this Thanks-

giving Day I thought we ought to spend some time and think of something specific we are "Thankful" for. My idea was that today we would put a small box together with a hole in the top to put in our thoughts on a piece of paper and then into the box. As I blog this the box is being put together and decorated by the "Grand Kids". Into the box each of us will put as many as 5 specific things listed on a sheet of paper for each person here and each of us will put in the list in the box. We will then read those things and have the opportunity to share each others blessings.

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A month or two ago I saw a movie about a man who went to Heaven and the 5 people he met their. On of the ones he met was his wife who had gone before. She came to him looking young like she had looked the day he married her. He danced with her and they talked. He had met a few people before he met her and understood where he was and that what he was seeing was changing and could change quickly. As he danced with his wife he asked her if she could look like she had when she left and then she changed into the body of the older women he had known in their later years. His expression seemed to deepen as to how he felt about her. It seemed to me that he really saw her the same as when she was younger and if anything he seemed to loved her more for the years of time they had shared that was best reflected in how she had looked in her later years of life.

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It seems to me that for this man he loved her most for what she was, now, or in his case the time closest to it.

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Thankful For, "Now".

Thankful for who we are, "Now".

Thankful for the days together.

Thankful for the family shared.