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It was 1999. I stood in my medium-sized closet stuffed with clothes and sighed. I had owned many of my clothes for 10 years. We didn’t really have money for new clothing very often and I was fortunate enough to have stayed the same weight for that length of time. “I am so tired of these clothes,” I said to myself. “I wish I had a new white blouse, some new jeans, and some new dresses and skirts.” But I had been working on distinguishing between wants and needs and trying to be more thankful and content for what I already had. So I said “Lord, I don’t need those things though. I have a lot more clothes than most people in the world. Help me be more content.”
A few weeks later, I got a call from a young mom I had just met.
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Thanksgiving day is always a special time to spend as a family. I will be with a portion of my physical family today. Yet I remember creating, with my Venezuelan family, our own version of a Thanksgiving meal while I lived in Venezuela.
I know that many have not had the same blessing that I have had of a family that supports and loves each other. We are far from perfect. But we strive to share in the loving support that is best found in the context of family.
I give thanks to God for my family—my parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers-in-law, nephew, niece, uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. And I give thanks to God for my family in Christ that spans the world.