The leaves fall, pumpkins line the mantle, a bunch of flaming black-eyed susans sit in the middle of the oak table, heralding Canadian Thanksgiving...
And (thank you, Leslie!) we've picked a verse for this year's family Thanksiving Offering Box:
"Let them give thanks to the LORD
for his mercy and the wonders he does for his children.
Let them offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving
and tell of his acts with shouts of joy." Psalm 107
Inside the lid, we've written the invitation...
"Throughout the year, slip in your offering of thanks, and any offering you choose,
a penny, a dime, a prayer, a note of your quiet act of service...
and come that day we gather to give Him Thanksgiving,
we'll join you in that circle of praise in the congregating of the saints,
collect your sacrifice offerings that we might give from what He's graciously given,
and use these notes as tinder,
a ribbon of ascending praise,
sweet smelling incense of the saints."
Maybe the tradition will have the notes tucked into a pile of leaves, burned after Thanksgiving Dinner?
What happy joy to pile up the leaves, give thanks, and sing thanksgiving, as the leaves crackle...
Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! ~Ps. 150:6
Blessed EVERYDAY Thanksgiving!
Related reading: Leslie's idea of the Family Thanks Box
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