Turkey

So, your headed to Grandma's for Thanksgiving and it is kind of a long drive. The cornfields on both seem like they never end. You are getting hungry and the same old, same old fast food joints just won't cut it. Ahh, what is a person supposed to do?

Well, here is a recipe for Turkey on the go. You can actually cook your Turkey in your car engine! Check it out...http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2009/11/how-to-roast-thanksgiving-turkey-on-your-cars-engine-as-you-drive/1

If you do try it, you must let me know. Wow, that would be better than sliced bread :)

Often, these hilarious little anecdotes are funny, yet they speak about a truth a little deeper than we want to realize. How often do we in our society eat fast food? How often do we brush past someone, barely acknowledging their presence? How often are we rushing around, accomplishing tasks in our life, which are wonderful, yet we end up completely missing the point of the whole journey?

We live in a world that has just endless options. We can be entertained 24/7, the Internet provides for us countless distractions and new hobbies and they actually have a soap opera channel, for endless drama. The world is just filled with potential. Really, it is an exciting time for us to live. 30 years ago, life ran at a completely different pace for most people. Today, however, most people are always on the go.

Is it a bad thing? Depends how we look at it. It also depends on how we engage the moments that we are still.

So, this Thanksgiving season, though it is a good season to remember what we are thankful for, let us also just be aware. Though the pressure is to accomplish, succeed and shop till you drop, maybe the best situation to be in is not the accomplishment we might succeed in, but the appreciation of what we already have in front us...our kids, our families, our friends, our God.

Grace and Peace!
Micah