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2005 Soap Box Archives Thanksgiving 2005 (11/21/05) Thanksgiving 2005 Lord I want to thank you another Fall, for the color of the leaves and the brightness of the stars and the doe that stood in the middle of a field and stared at Hazel and myself yesterday. I want to thank you for being at the right place to see a herd of my horses coming running out of the back pasture and down the hill, their heads held high and their manes flying in the breeze. I thank you for the life giving rain and that big butter colored autumn moon and the honking of the Canadian geese who stop at the big pond on their way to who knows where. I thank you for gentle horses and playful puppies. I thank you for the frost diamonds in the brown grass on a clear, cold Tennessee morning. I thank you for the solitude of the pre dawn hours and a great roaring oak wood fire in the fireplace. I thank you for this great and wondrous country you’ve given us, from the bustle of New York City to the windy prairies of Nebraska, from the stormy, rockbound coast of the North Atlantic to the majesty of the Rocky Mountains. I thank you for protecting and prospering this great nation for over two hundred years and for the heroes who have stood in the breach and shed their blood that their children and ours might live in peace and safety I thank you for the love of a good woman, the devotion of a faithful son and the fun of teaching my grandson how to ride four wheelers and shoot a .22 rifle. I thank you for laughter among friends, good times remembered and millions of miles traveled in safety. For high cantled saddles and miles of wooded trails and the creek that winds lazily through my property. I thank you for having your hand on that Chinook helicopter that night in Iraq when we took some small arms fire. I thank you for blessing me with being able to make a living doing something I love with all my heart and for all the good people you’ve given me to help make my dreams come true. I thank you for every breath I breathe, every step that I take, for clean water and the bounty of our table and family and friends to share it with. I thank you for letting me live to be 69 years old and still have such a zest for life, for still being able to get excited about entertaining people. But above all Lord I thank you that you love this evil world so much that you would send your only Son that we might spend eternity with you. And you sent him with the foreknowledge of how he would be horribly mistreated and die the most painful death any human ever has. Lord
I thank you for so many blessings and ask you this Thanksgiving
to be with our brave men and women who will spend their Thanksgiving
as strangers in a strange land Pray for our troops. What do you think? God Bless America Charlie
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