This Thanksgiving, Give Thanks For What You Have And For What You Have Lost!

I’m sorry you feel this way. There are at least four homeless shelters within five miles of my church.

I’m not understanding why you are putting down the idea of giving back to other people.

Care to explain?

City life is different from country life. The thinking is different maybe because in a city there's easy access to everything.

I don't see where I was putting down helping others. There are no homeless in my area. They couldn't survive here. The roads to go down the mountain are treacherous especially in bad weather. If anything happened to me there would be no one to help me so I must be careful with what I do and when. Thanksgiving would be different if it were in July.

I've tried churches near and far and there was always the same problem. I don't fit in because I am single, have no children and am not a recovering druggy or alcoholic. People think that because I am single I have all the time in the world and everything is easy because I do not have a family to take care of, worry about. I have no right to complain about anything or ask for any help. A person who is single is a threat to marrieds or there must be something wrong with them for being single. Meanwhile I have only me to depend on everything. I used to help people till I was worn out.

One can choose to marinate in self pity or one can decide bring some joy to someone else and not think about themselves..
“It is in giving that you receive”

It could be that you have made the choice to be alone yesterday by your isolation and self pity the other 364 days of the year..

Look around you, the world is full of people that would welcome a friend

I am alone and I had a wonderful Thanksgiving. what did I do? I helped in serving over 1600 meals at our church. Most of those were meal deliveries to homes, but we had quite a few people come for a sit down meal at our church too.

Simply awesome.

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