Around the Table
October 23, 2009 by admin
Filed under Holiday - Thanksgiving
One Thanksgiving season a family was seated around their table, looking
at the annual holiday bird. From the oldest to the youngest, they were
to express their praise. When they came to the
5-year-old in the family, he began by looking at the turkey and
expressing his thanks to the turkey, saying although he had not tasted
it he knew it would be good. After that rather novel expression of
thanksgiving, he began with a more predictable line of credits, thanking
his mother for cooking the turkey and his father for buying the turkey.
But then he went beyond that. He joined together a whole hidden
multitude of benefactors, linking them with cause and effect.
He said, “I thank you for the checker at the grocery store who checked
out the turkey. I thank you for the grocery store people who put it on
the shelf. I thank you for the farmer who made it fat. I thank you for
the man who made the feed. I thank you for those who brought the turkey
to the store.”
Using his Columbo-like little mind, he traced the turkey all the way
from its origin to his plate.
And then at the end he solemnly said “Did I leave anybody out?”
His 2-year-older brother, embarrassed by all those proceedings, said,
“God.”
Solemnly and without being flustered at all, the
5-year-old said, “I was about to get to him.”
Well, isn’t that the question about which we ought to think at
Thanksgiving time? Are we really going to get to him this Thanksgiving?
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