Along the journey towards the greater, there are many small, daily steps to better understand oneself, God, and others. This is one of my “daily steps”.
Happy Thanksgiving!⠀
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This photo is from several years ago when I was just trying to rein in my three young boys and get them to smile for just one photo. I ended up using this on a Christmas card because it was the best one we got, the most real of all the photographs. Since then, we’ve taken a photo with an upside down kid a lot… so maybe now it’s a little posed… but this one, this one was real.⠀
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This morning I’m pausing before finishing to prepare for our #Thanksgiving meal to remember that the best moments can be the real moments. Even the ones where you discover your four year old drew a permanent marker happy face on your table. ⠀
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For as the poet #GerardManleyHopkins says:⠀
“For Christ plays in ten thousand places,⠀
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his⠀
To the Father through the features of men’s faces.”⠀
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So #HappyThanksgiving, my prayer for you and I is that we are able to pause and see #God in all the faces at our dinner table today.⠀
