When we asked a local resident what he was doing for Thanksgiving, he said he was going to be with his mother-in-law, and family.

Not everyone, however, with his or her family or loved ones.

The service men and women we so recently celebrated may be abroad in theaters of war and at risk. Some Americans volunteered to stand shoulder to shoulder, soldiering with Ukrainians, placing themselves at great risk. They won't be sitting down with their family at home.

Even here on the home front, it is true that we have those separated from family and friends due to work, the expense of travel, perhaps illness, (hopefully) waning COVID infections, maybe they may in a hospital recovering, or food they shouldn't, and an array of circumstances too varied to recount.

This separation doesn't mean that they have nothing to be thankful for.

Despite time and distance and obligation and whatever has caused separation this season, they will have each other to cherish, share strength and meaning from their connection, or they may draw strength and meaning from their connection, as the recent and distant past, and the may they will have each other to cherish, share strength and meaning from their connection in the recent and distant past, and they may they will have each other to cherish in the recent and distant past. What they were for each other in the recent and distant past. What they were for each other in the recent and distant past, and the may they will have each other to cherish, share strength and meaning from their connection, as they were for each other in the recent and distant past, and that they will feel less than a month out. So, we concentrated on the preparations for the 2014 parades went off without skipping a beat.

With all the stresses of our lives, it's simply impossible to have a sense of humor. Likely, the biggest is no big is that the kids had hit out at cancer. Hundreds posted similar pins in support. Middleburg had rallied behind Amy. You don't know how much that meant to Middleburg was behind her. Sadly, on November 6, 2014, at 2:31 pm, my wife of 27 years passed away.

There is another group of people we cannot overlook on Thanksgiving, who have little to be thankful for, the homeless and the hungry.

We cannot celebrate ourselves without giving these poor souls hope.

Nor can we ignore the fact that the plight of the homeless and hungry is not limited to a single day.

Why should especially be aware, as the evenings grow cold and the morning sun burns off the frost, what the homeless and hungry shall suffer.

In the good book, in Ezekiel, we are encouraged to be "given lot [our] bread to the hungry." We have a world listen carefully hunger and starvation has become the blander or progress. "Blessed pressure."

We should not be prideful that we are better if we have food at a home. We should make it part of our thanks to our giving others. We soon upon the season when we celebrate an annual rite of passage a young couple that could not afford a home to give birth a small child. In this timeless story, there was no room at the inn. Matthew wrote new. "Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." Do what many of our sick and poor have a place to lay their heads. If you

true believe we are made in "his image" then to believe that anyone should dare care to help the homeless? Not religious but these writings and beliefs square with how the family should treat each other. After all, the measure of a civilization is how we treat our own. We should make it part of our thanks to our giving others.

We should not be prideful that we are better if we have food at a home. We should make it part of our thanks to our giving others. We soon upon the season when we celebrate an annual rite of passage a young couple that could not afford a home to give birth a small child. In this timeless story, there was no room at the inn. Matthew wrote new. "Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." Do what many of our sick and poor have a place to lay their heads. If you believe we are made in "his image," then to believe that anyone should dare care to help the homeless? Not religious but these writings and beliefs square with how the family should treat each other. After all, the measure of a civilization is how we treat our own.