{"id":7332,"date":"2013-11-12T13:50:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beginnersheart\/?p=7332"},"modified":"2013-11-12T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T18:50:41","slug":"the-month-of-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2013\/11\/the-month-of-thanksgiving.html","title":{"rendered":"the month of Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

During November — which I think of as the month of Thanksgiving — I give thanks each day for one of my many blessings. Today it’s my grandson, with whom I am (of course!) besotted.<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a>I’m sure this is true of most (if not all) grandmothers. This makes my grandson no less miraculous to me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Trinidad is a BIG blessing. But over the past several days I’ve also been grateful for other, more mundane things: the golden autumn light, the perfect fall weather Tulsa enjoyed for several unbroken days, my husband’s support for a month where I’m gone more than at home… And yet not one of these is really ‘ordinary.’ Or mundane. And each happens daily. Kind of like winter snowflakes — no two blessings alike.<\/p>\n

People expect me to be grateful for such a healthy, happy baby. But the happiness I feel for Trin is only the tip of iceberg. It was hard for me to become pregnant w\/ his father — it took 3 years, including an operation. So I never take either of my sons — not Trin’s father nor his uncle — for granted.<\/p>\n

And every mother of sons knows how lucky you feel just to graduate them \u00a0— intact! — from high school Add a job with benefits to that? Whew!<\/p>\n

And then combine that with an amazing daughter-in-law, and then a brilliantly beautiful baby boy? All healthy? That’s the iceberg, isn’t it? That still leaves plenty of gratitude for the snowflakes, if that makes sense.<\/p>\n

So this month, as you count your many blessings — hopefully one each day — remember how they came to you. And be grateful for your snowflakes as well as your icebergs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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