Deep Thought: I think  the best Thanksgiving I ever had was the one where we didn’t even have a turkey. Mom and Dad sat us kids down and explained that business hadn’t been good at Dad’s store, so we couldn’t afford a turkey. We had vegetables and bread and pie, and it was just fine.

Later I went into Mom and Dad’s bedroom to thank them, and I caught them eating a little turkey.

I guess that wasn’t really the best Thanksgiving.

Wow, how this year has flown by. Here we are getting ready for Thanksgiving. I know that I haven’t finished my story that I started on this blog, but I just wanted to post some things that are going on. I will get back to the story later.

• For those of you who don’t know, my daughter Michaela is home for awhile. We brought her home from the mission field for a little vacation and when she came back, she was sick. Many of you know she had swine flu this summer. Well, when she got off the plane in September, she had a bad staph infection, ringworm, and high blood pressure. So we decided to keep her home for awhile until she built her health back up. She is volunteering in the church office for now. The plan is to send her back to Bali in January, where she will be working at an orphanage and volunteering at Elevate Bali, the youth center our church supports.
• This last Sunday we started a new series called “The Poet: Inspiration from the Psalms.” Throughout this series we are doing daily devotions with a Psalm. You can subscribe to it by going here.
• What a great Night of Worship last night. Thanks to Matt Menendez and the band for a very intimate time with Jesus.
• Tonight I have a Life Group I started this summer. It is called the Shoreline Academy of Leadership. It runs for 8 months and is a intensive leadership prep course. It’s so exciting to see people discovering their gifts to lead. If you weren’t invited this time, don’t worry, we will offer it again next year.
• Darlene and I leave for a week in Washington and Oregon on Sunday. On Sunday we are having lunch with a new church plant team in Seattle, the city they are planting in in February. Next we are headed for 2 nights to her sister’s house on Lopez Island. Then we will spend a couple of nights in Ilwaco, WA, with a couple of Shoreliners who were transferred there and watch Shoreline services with some others in the furthest Life Group away from Destin. After that, we close out our final 2 days in Portland leading a church planters round table. We are very excited about that, as well as being in the great northwest, as we have never been there.
• We will be back next Saturday and I will be speaking on Psalm 91 the following day.
• We have some exciting plans for our Christmas series. You do not want to miss it - especially the 20th of December. It could change your Christmas traditions.

I am looking forward to Thanksgiving and hopefully it will be the best one yet… and with a turkey.

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