Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends and family in Canada. This year in Nicaragua we didn't have regular classes, but we did have a teacher workday. That means I was able to escape a little early and join the other Canadians in Nicaragua for a Thanksgiving celebration.

At the teacher workday we always have a parent of one of our students lead us in devotions. The pastor that lead us that morning talked about thanksgiving. Little did he know how appropriate it was for me being Thanksgiving Day. He used the story of Jesus feeding the 5, 000. We all know the story of Jesus telling the disciples that they need to feed the people before they leave to their homes. The disciples did the calculations and could clearly see that the 5 loaves and 2 fish were not be enough. Jesus takes this poor man's meal, looks up into heaven, and HE GAVE THANKS. With much love His Heavenly Father looked down at His Son giving thanks for this meager meal and responded by making it sufficient for the whole crowd. Sometimes we look at our things thinking it's not enough and that we need more. If we stop and give thanks, the Lord can multiple what we have to be enough or just give us a heart of gratitude.

As I said after the teacher workday we ate a Thanksgiving meal together with other Canadians. There were about 35 of us all together. There wasn't a turkey to be found in Nicaragua so we went for the ham and chicken option. After sharing a time of thanksgiving, we played some hockey. The pictures above were taken at about 6:00pm but at this hour it's already dark in Nicaragua. We used the car's headlights to light up our game.