Back To Home Page To Archives - Spring of Life - H. Roger Bothwell Happy Thanksgiving Things are busy in our house with the preparation for Thanksgiving Dinner and all that goes with that. There are grandchildren riding a rocking zebra and playing harmonicas. There is me spending most of my time retrieving the children’s stuff from the dog that thinks all this added activity is great fun. Being that our house is full of vegetarians the traditional turkey is replaced with a wide variety of very good things one of which is gluten steaks made from flour. Our four-year-old granddaughter is immersed in the cooking. Her inquisitive mind wants to know everything about everything. With her hands covered with flour from the gluten making process she looked up and asked, “Our we doing this because we are poor?” I guess she was wondering why we are not having the traditional turkey. But how could we be poor we have her? How could anyone be poor who has people to love and be loved by? True poverty is existent in the house where riches are measured by the amount of money in one’s bank account. A bank account is numbers printed on a page. Neil Diamond sings a song called, “Money Talks But It Don’t Sing and Dance.” Real wealth comes in the form of legs, arms, feet, hands and all the other parts that comes with happy smiling children. This Thanksgiving Day I am thankful for this opportunity to rejoice in my friends and my house-full children and grandchildren. And so to my granddaughter’s question. “Are we poor?” I respond, “Hardly, we have you and Jesus.” Happy Thanksgiving to you this fine day. I'm Roger Bothwell and my address is hrb1@tiac.net or 151 Old Farm Rd. Leominster, MA 01453. Thank you for your support of our faith ministry. Past devotionals can be accessed at Archives