[Onebrother] thoughts about Thanksgiving

[Karen Summers]

Got to love those Puritans, eh?  Toothy in light of the problems Kurt had last 
Sunday evening..being a grandmother is just as hard, sometimes harder than being 
a mother, at least in my experience.

Karen




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From: Courtney Robinson <courtney at midnighthour.org>
To: onebrother at midnighthour.org
Sent: Tue, November 1, 2011 11:36:27 AM
Subject: [Onebrother] thoughts about Thanksgiving

I was just reading an article about the first Thanksgiving.  The author 
reflected on how much suffering the Pilgrims had been through and how she and 
her children were reading some original documents from the time, discovering 
that there was more to the first Thanksgiving than our romanticized conception.  
This made me think of our study and the hard "grace" we talked about Sunday.  
This author (Courtney Sanford) made the application below about not feeling like 
we have to solve all our children's problems:

    Once we discover the truth, we will want to apply it to our own lives. How 
can we cultivate the strength of character, hope, and thankfulness that those 
original Pilgrims possessed?     The Bible tells us in Romans 5:3-4 (NIV) “we 
also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces 
perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.”     I believe the 
hardships that the Pilgrims endured produced their thankfulness. We can do our 
children a favor by not smoothing out all their problems for them. Allowing them 
            opportunities to be challenged, or even to suffer something 
unpleasant, might produce some perseverance and character in them, too.

It was comforting to me to be reminded that although I hate to see my children 
suffer, I do not have to strive to give them a problem- free life.  The 
afflictions they face may very well be the grace of God to them, as mine are to 
me.  I long to see perseverance, character, and hope in them.  If I really do 
long for these things, much of my anxiety over their troubles is a waste of my 
mental and emotional energy.  


Just wanted to share that with ya'll!

Love,
Courtney


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