Under-rated

No, not me. If anything, I am vastly over-rated.

It's raining, my windshield wiper doesn't work. My body is feeling older by the day and looking more like my car (gray with rust spots). My retirement that looked rosy 5-years ago is sprouting weeds from a recession/depression. Need I go on?

But Thanksgiving is coming. Thanksgiving is under-rated.

The old cliches are that if you have your health, your family, a job, whatever, you can be happy and thankful. What if I didn't. What if my health was failing, I was alone, what if I lost a loved one at Fort Hood, or to cancer, old age. Could I still be happy?

The longer I live the more I realize how short this life is. The more I need to live for the next life. In that life, I will have my health, my loved ones, there will be no sickness, death, darkness, fatigue or loneliness.

I will have a dearly loved one home tonight! I pray for all those who travel home over the next couple of days. But I am most thankful that...I'm not home yet.