Today we had our first Thanksgiving celebration. Next week, we will have our second when we drive to Idaho to celebrate Thanksgiving with our son, Seth, and his family. Today we had four of our eight kids and their kids, our grandkids, with us, 22 in all, counting Patty and me. We ate a lot of delicious food that everyone brought, we watched the Oregon Duck football game, some of us did anyway, we talked a lot and played games, and it was a great day. At this point in my life, these kinds of days are my favorites. I will be on a high for the next week, and it will be added to by our time with Seth and his family. For many years, when the kids were young and all home, they were our life; our life revolved around them. I miss those days a lot, and so many memories come flooding back on days like today. I will look at one of them while we are playing this dumb pantomime game, and I will clearly remember an event with them from years ago. It is enjoyable but also sad because it is gone. One of the most tragic things for me is thinking about all those years and activities and events that are gone from my memory. It is like they didn’t even happen. One of the blessings for me in thinking about heaven is that I will have a glorified body, a body like Jesus’, and part of that is a glorified brain, mind, and memory. I will remember everything, every tiny detail, and I will have a perfect understanding of all the events that confused me as I lived them. I expect that my gratitude to the Lord will explode as I see all the planning by him that went into my life, the details, the people, everything had a purpose, and I will see that clearly. 1 Corinthians 13:12 “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.”