HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I was considering the subject of the menu for our Free Thanksgiving Dinner at The Sonora United Methodist Church from 1 to 4 on Thanksgiving Day - which is a week from THIS Thursday.  We will no doubt have the traditional dishes - turkey, dressing (I avoid stuffing my turkeys and just pour copious amounts of the flavorful turkey juice laced with the flavors of the vegies, herbs and turkey, plus the sauteed onion and celery of course, over the dried bread cubes!)  We will probably need four to five big birds.  I asked #1 son if he could provide some from the flock of wild turkeys that eat the bugs in his grass each evening.  He said that he would have to have a license and didn't know when "turkey season" started, so I guess we will have the normal "store-bought" turkey.  Good thing that those Pilgrims didn't need a license or a season, they would have STARVED.  They were thankful for all that GOD provided each day, as we should be.  It should NOT take a Presidential or Federal LAW to make us be thankful.

I read that the Pilgrims probably had a variety of wild birds, anything that they could snare or knock out of the sky with their blunderbusses.  Also perhaps venison and seafoods - clams or lobster, oysters, or other mussels - were included in that first feast.  We will undoubtably include corn as one of our vegies, and I know of yams and sweet tators and a green bean casserole on the list.  Our congregation is so generous and willing to help out with this endeavor.  GOD BLESS THEM!!

In the seven years that we have been a'doing this we have met some lovely people, fed some homeless folks who really get their fill of turkey that week - the local A/G church does a dinner out by the Coffee Store on the corner the night BEFORE Thanksgiving Day.  Theirs is on disposable plates and with plastic table ware; ours is on china with real silverware - we are very thankful for the NEW Dishwasher!! 

The first year with 27 guests swelled to over a hundred two years ago.  Last year was a bit under a hundred, so don't know what to expect a week from Thursday. Last year my prayer was enough food for the number that came and enough guests to eat the food that GOD provided!  My prayer was answered!!  We have experienced divine multiplication at other times and in other places, GOD is capable!  Come and enjoy the companionship and the food if you are in SONORA on Thanksgiving.