Posted on Nov 19, 2015
Next week is Thanksgiving Day. How will you be giving thanks for the blessings of so many freedoms that each of us has served to protect?
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I AM NOT PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK. I am interested in learning if there are other RP members who spend their Thanksgiving and Christmas working in "Soup Kitchens," churches, or some type of charity serving meals to the needy and homeless. I discovered a tremendous joy and satisfaction when I started doing this nearly forty years ago. Today, the church where I will be next week I know there are a sizable number of homeless, hungry veterans. Many of them are Native Americans. Over the last several years I've come to know them personally, and we chat just like any bunch of old military buddies do. It has done my heart a tremendous amount of good to do this, and I have no intentions of quitting anytime soon, health permitting. How about you? Any of you RP'ers have stories to share?
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I think my family is going to do a similar thing this year. I think it is important to show my children how thankful we are by showing how so many have little or nothing.
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Thank you, Jay. Had I had children, I can assure you that they would have been right by my side!!!
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SFC Wade W.
It is definitely important to start that with your children as early as possible. Make sure to point out the joyful moments that occur and if you don't see any then create one by spending some one on one time with one of the families. Who knows, you might make a connection with someone you can help into a house or a job. God bless you in your endeavor with your family.
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We plan on spending Thanksgiving at the home mother-in-law where my wife and I are caring for herSCPO (Join to see). We will be hosting an elderly man from our church whose wife left him a year or so ago. We will be saving some food for two of our sons. One who lives near the VAMC in Martinsburg, WV whose wife left him last year and whose ex-father-in-law terminated his employment as an electrician earlier this month. The other son lives nearby.
God is always faithful. I have learned to be thankful in times of bounty and great need. Nothing happens by chance to those of us who believe in and trust our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. We are each being conformed in to the image of Christ in God's perfect timing.
I hope each of my RallyPoint contacts and friends has a wonderful and thankful Thanksgiving holiday.
God is always faithful. I have learned to be thankful in times of bounty and great need. Nothing happens by chance to those of us who believe in and trust our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. We are each being conformed in to the image of Christ in God's perfect timing.
I hope each of my RallyPoint contacts and friends has a wonderful and thankful Thanksgiving holiday.
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SFC Terry Fortune
I'll be spending Thanksgiving at my in-laws this year. It will also the first year without my Dad.
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All at our table will be LGBT or allies, and almost all veterans...
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