Thanksgiving

"Because God has already laid the only foundation of our fellowship, because God has bound us together in one body with other Christians in Jesus Christ, long before we entered into common life with them, we enter into that common life not as demanders but as thankful recipients. We thank God for what he has done for us. We thank God for giving us brethren who live by His call, by His forgiveness, and His promise. We do not complain of what God does not give us; we rather thank God for what He does give us daily. And is not what has been given us enough: brothers, who will go on living with us through sin and need under the blessing of His grace?"
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

On Sunday afternoon we as a house had a large thanksgiving meal together including: turkey, potatoes, sweet potatoes (or were they yams?), delicious stuffing, pie, and some form of roll. It was a good time to sit around a table all together as a house and eat a large amount of food, and then proceed to fall asleep watching football.

Personally, I am very thankful for the opportunity to be a part of this house and to attempt to live in community together. I am thankful for those that God has gathered in this house and for the shape that this community will take as a result of those people that God has gathered here.

Bonhoeffer's call to be thankful for what God gives daily is good advice I figure. There are many little things which we could complain about as a house but at the same time for us in this house God has brought together seven people who "live by His call, by His forgiveness, and by His promise". There is something very joyful about being part of a growing community that is seeking to live into what God is calling it to be.