Monthly Archives: October 2012

As I listened to the radio this morning, the weather forecast was bright.  The announcers figured this was not bad for October. 

Expectations for the area are around 20 degrees Celcius.  The temperature at awakening was around 1 degree Celcius.  Didn’t even get below freezing.

Meanwhile, back in sunny Saskatchewan, the temperatures have been in the single digits – overnight below zero, during the day above zero! 

 So, I was out for a brisk 20 minute walk this morning.  The air is fresh and the grass is still green (where it had been watered over a dry summer).  The plants are looking good and even the flowers are still in bloom.  A reminder that good weather, good soil and good care make for pleasant surroundings.  Even for the soul!

36 years ago was a day of rain, snow and wind.  The tides of the weather didn’t dampen our wedding day.  And even today, I am thankful – as we were that Thanksgiving time in 1976.

Thanks to God for the opportunity to live “under God” in a great marriage.  Thanks to Jill for love and support over our time together.  The memories remain!

The trip to Summerland ended up being uneventful.  That is a true note of thanksgiving on this Thanksgiving day. 

After spending the evening in Calgary on Sunday with my friends Arnold and Phyllis Schellenberg, I headed out this morning at 8:44 – with rain and mist well past Banff before the sun broke out. 

Arriving around 5:00 in Summerland, I sorted out my belongings and headed to Penticton for groceries.  A great steak supper later (with instant mashed potatoes – my favourite since childhood) and a relaxing evening and now off to bed.

May your Thanksgiving Day continue to last past today and into this coming year!

I am thankful for the beginning of a day.  God could just shut everything down and we would be like dust, blowing in the wind (except there wouldn’t be any wind, or anything else).

But today is a new day, and I rejoice in it.

I am thankful for friends and family.  In the last few days people have checked in and check up on me.  Thank you.

I am thankful for purpose.  God placed me here, not in a random act, but as a show of love and kindness.  I arise each day to return to him thanks for his love and to let others see and know that love and kindness.

I am thankful for a mind that imagines.  So much more than just the mundane occupies my day.  My imaginings receive the greatest boost when I think of eternity.

I am thankful for eternity.  In this time right now, God has let me live in this community and celebrate life with so many great people.  And in a coming day I will celebrate with other loved ones. 

Thank you!