i have never felt more alienated than this ‘holiday’. I used to at least get a pity invitation to come and eat fowl other than chicken or goose and have some cheer or reminder of other times. But now they’ve gone and made it so I’m not welcome anywhere, anymore. Sigh.@@@@@@@@
You are most welcome here! Coming from a military family and being a retired airlifter I have been separated from family and friends over the years almost as much as I have been with them. Often I can’t remain in the room when the family gathers, I cannot see how the next episode of the Batchelor is more important than dealing with those that would destroy our nation. Frustrating!
However, I know also that God has a plan, that I am still blessed, and that it is citizens like we FreeQs that will be the mortar that holds the bricks of this nation together. So while we may stand a lonely watch, WE ARE THE GUARDIANS OF LIBERTY even if those we are guarding it for do not realize it.
It is because we are willing to stand that they can sit and sleep in peace, we don’t stop being soldiers when we leave the service for the service never leaves us and we can do nor be anything else but Patriots. For ourselves and our posterity we will always stand for Freedom!
I pray these words and thoughts bring you peace on this Thanksgiving Day as we read the words of Gen Flynn and POTUS and reflect on the first Thanksgiving address by George Washington in 1779. We may at times be by ourselves, but we are never alone!
WWG1WGA!
Wonderful words and thoughts, BillyV!
Here is something actually ‘spooky’ I am sharing with you
At times, for no reason and with no activity on my part, my car stereo connects to Pandora and plays this song. I have never searched or chosen this song. I never heard it before.
Now it plays itself whenever it feels like it.
I don’t have an account with Pandora, nor do I ever use it. I have to pull over and disconnect, I get so freaked out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWVyVMbSzM4
Alone Yet Not Alone (Song) Performed by Joni Eareckson Tada
Well said.