We had only been seeing each other for a few weeks when Karen invited me to her parents’ house for Thanksgiving dinner. As the food was being passed around the table, I took a healthy portion of mashed potatoes and scooped out a crater for the gravy. The only problem was, no gravy was being served! There I was, obviously expecting gravy, but there wasn’t any!

While the incident didn’t bother me at all, I later learned that my future mother-in-law was quite embarrassed that her Thanksgiving dinner fell short of my expectations. We would later joke about the incident. Every Thanksgiving, someone would announce that we could make a crater in our mashed potatoes because gravy was on hand!

We don’t need to have gravy for a meal to be special. Every day we are blessed beyond measure. We can say along with the psalm writer, “my cup overflows”. (Psalm 23:5).

Our greatest blessing, of course, is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

“Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!” (2 Cor.9:15).