Sorry, bailed on the blogging last night. I watched a Christmas movie on YouTube instead; meanwhile... Mike was teaching and Solomiya was sleeping.
Today, we celebrated Thanksgiving with our fellow American friends that are also "sojourning abroad*", Jim and Laurie.
*" ... I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States,
and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to
set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of
Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him
for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble
penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender
care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the
lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently
implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation
and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the
full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union." - Abraham Lincoln, 1863
Thanking our beneficent Father for:
- a warm & safe place to live
- running water
- more than enough food
- clothing
- people around the world who support us and the work God is doing here
- fulfilling & meaningful work each day
Commending to His tender care:
- the hundreds of orphans that live in Uzhhorod
- the alcoholics passed out beside our front door
- the Roma who wait by our trash bins for new bags of garbage to look through
- the many elderly widows and widowers who have seen so much heartache in this land over the years
Asking God to heal the wounds of this nation of Ukraine and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes; Asking for peace, harmony, tranquility and unity upon this nation.
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