thanksgiving.  people celebrate it almost countless different ways.

do you know what i hope thanksgiving looks like at my house one day?

i hope that every year i get to get a HUGE turkey and invite 20 to 30 people over for the WHOLE DAY.  i hope we all hang out and enjoy one another and cook and clean up and talk over coffee and homemade pumpkin pie that we made together and that, in all of it, people see and taste and stand awash in the love of Christ.

i hope.

i don’t know why we have all these isolated ways of celebrating the holidays… these “just us” preferences.

i hope one day i have a home where i can invite all my very-favorite people over and we will have a grand ole time enjoying the holiday and being thankful and celebrating the Lord’s goodness and His work in our lives.

and hopefully in the days leading up to it, different girls would come over and we would hang out and cook together.  it could be like a week-long “doing life together” holiday.

i hope…  ::grin::

i hope.

two words:  luci swindoll.

i love her.  and no, i have never met her.  but i love her nonetheless.

she wrote a book called Wide My World, Narrow My Bed and it is fabulous.  it’s about living and loving the single life as you walk with the Lord and is, in huge part, the inspiration for this very blog.

in her book luci touches on a lot and her words left me turning over new ideas for my time (whether it be life or season) of singleness… left me wanting to taste flavors of it yet unsavored.

it also left me stamping my foot and crossing my arms in classic five-year-old-girl-with-pigtails-throwing-a-tantrum fashion.  why?  because of what she shared about practicing hospitality.

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