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The adrenaline starts to flow today as you take seriously your to-do list. Whether traveling to or creating the Thanksgiving feast, your list is long.
Put wisdom at the top.
Buy it at the moment you ask God to inject an unusual amount into your view of your list, your extended family and yourself.
Take magazine perfect off your list.
The beauty of your people--your incredible, flawed, magnificent family--assembled with those added and those lost, is unique and beautiful and created in the image of God. No magazine competes with that.
Under wisdom, put the two or three things that always trip you up at the last minute and make you grumpy. Get those out of the way early this week--clean the car if you are traveling, assemble all the serving dishes if you are the host. Ask your spouse what is he/she can always count on to be your last minute panic. I call it working backwards (doing the last things first).
Finally, start a Laughter Page. Jot down everything funny that happens this week and ask God to be generous in creating moments that bring laughter to you and those you join this week. Let those moments be the ones seared into all gathered hearts, particularly those of the children.
Happy Monday.
