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Thanksgiving. It’s the one time of the year we set aside to give thanks for our bountiful harvest. Not only thanks for what comes from the fields, but also the rich bounty of our friends and family who make up our lives the rest of the year.
We have so much to be thankful for: being able to see the world around us through the eyes of our children, knowing there is someone who will help us close the door on our daily trials and tribulations.
In tonight’s radio program, Lovers and Other Strangers between 9 and 11 pm, I mention a very old chestnut tree in Amsterdam. Anne Frank did not have a lot to be thankful for, but she did have that tree. The top of it was just visible through the only window that wasn’t blacked out. It was an attic skylight. She and her family were in hiding because of the Nazi occupation. One can’t imagine the fear they lived with every day. I will read an excerpt from her diary in the show tonight that specifically mentions that 150-year old Horse Chestnut tree. It was written a year before her death in a concentration camp…
If a young girl could be thankful for a tree at a time when her very existence was threatened, imagine all that you have to be thankful for, living here in Canada.
We have so much to be thankful for: our health, our happiness, a roof overhead…and windows that are not blacked out. We can also be thankful for the kindness of strangers. We are thankful for being able to see the world around us through the eyes of our children, knowing that they are healthy and happy, knowing they live at a time of relative peace. We should be thankful for the sacrifices being made by our servicemen and women overseas.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support of my efforts to bring you this radio program every weeknight between 9 and 11 pm.
It doesn’t take much to show our appreciation in our quiet moments; all it takes is a simple ‘thank you’.
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Don Jackson
