It is Thanksgiving in the USA, a day we set aside to be with family and to give thanks to God for our blessings. We are thankful for health and provisions … and we are deeply aware that our country has taken some serious economic downturns of late. And that means moms and dads and boys and girls are struggling. We pray for them today.

We are thankful for our family, including very especially the addition of Aksel Donovan, our new grandson — son of Annika and Lukas.

And… Kris and I want to express our thanks today for you, the Jesus Creed blog community.

And … to “RJS” for her contributions to this blog that far outdo anything most of us can expect. I could go on … go ahead and post your own thanksgivings today.

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