What Thanksgiving Looks Like

This past week has been an exciting one for many reasons. For family, for new adventures, for Thanksgiving dinner (especially cranberry sauce. I LOVE cranberry sauce), and for love. I love Thanksgiving!

One of the events that has encapsulated all of those for me this year is the story of our friends the Plamanns who are, as we speak, in India finalizing the adoption of their new daughter, Pratima. The Plamanns heard about Pratima last November from a young woman at our church who visited Pratima's orphanage and put out an email to all her friends asking if there was a family who would consider adopting this beautiful 10 year old. In prayer and love, the Plamann's started the long process, and it has finally come to pass.

Thanksgiving is a time to give thanks to God for his great gifts to us. But it is also a time to put that thanksgiving into action with our lives. The Plamann's are living it out, and they are showing me what grace and love look like. I am thankful for them.

You can follow their adoption story at www.plamannadoption.blogspot.com. Please pray for their safety this next week as they are in India.

Happy Thanksgiving (albeit a few days late),
jeff