Thanksgiving at The Watson House

Today I thought of Daddy bringing home a huge dead turkey, feathers and all, and Mama making pumpkin pies, dressing, and the works. 

Before some of the older children left home, we rubbed elbows around the Thanksgiving Day table. You had to be brave to fork a piece of turkey from the platter, lest you get forked.

Another thing, sometimes I trod to the out-house just to have piece and quiet. I don't mean to complain. I'm thankful for all my brothers and sisters. And then there was the time when we got home from church and my older brother Clarence was missing. Daddy drove back and found him asleep on a pew.

I'm thankful for my upbringing. Too many families today pass their unbelief in God to their children, thus the blistering effect on our society. People need The Lord.

Proverbs 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 

Did all those church services make us perfect? No, but that's where we learned about Jesus, and what a difference it made in my life.