[Oe List ...] Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life

Tue Nov 23 10:34:00 CST 2010

Wouldn't we all JUST LOVE a picture of that Turkey Talk cover girl???

Jim

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--- On Tue, 11/23/10, Margaret Helen Aiseayew <aiseayew at netins.net> wrote:

From: Margaret Helen Aiseayew <aiseayew at netins.net>
Subject: [Oe List ...] Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life
To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 9:08 AM

What a delight this thanks giving from each one of us to 
another.  I have been long enough alone now (with my own bathroom) that I 
begin to think 'from time to time' that my life is measured in empty toilet 
paper rolls.  Now they are taking the rolls out of the toilet 
paper.  Searching for new ways to count, this reminder of 
community will do nicely.

Paula, you must have done the turkeys the years I wasn't 
at Kemper.  I think the most I ever did was fourteen.  When Dad and 
Dorothy came to visit, I think Dad was always a bit pleased that I was doing 
the turkeys.  (For any who don't know, this Iowa farm girl spent her 
years on the farm helping her father and grandfather raise turkeys and was once 
the cover girl on Turkey Talk magazine.  Most people have no idea how 
offended they should be when someone calls them a turkey.)

Since I have come back to Iowa, I have spent each 
Thanksgiving Day working to get out a free Thanksgiving dinner with all the 
trimmings.  We deliver to any who want a dinner.  People can come and 
carry out.  There are whole families (three and four generations) that come 
to share the common meal.  It is a joy to listen to people's stories of 
both times remembered and times best forgotten.  At the end of each year 
there has mysteriously been enough money in the basket on top of the piano to do 
the next year.  Abundance bouncing back.

I am continuously thankful for the abundance in my life 
which you all represent.
Blessings, Margaret 

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