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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:08:19 CST
From:         Lonnie Schubert <S096556@UMRVMA.BITNET>
Subject:      Thanksgiving

I've many things that I can think of to thank God for.
The big one is my wife.  Wow, what can I say, besides that
she is about as perfect as any man could dream of.  I
suppose the last chapter of Proverbs about sums her up.
Proverbs 19:14 seems appropriate too.

I could not begin to express the joy my daughter has brought
into my life.  She can be so frustrating at times, but I consider
even only one of the times that we wrestle and play and she squeels
and giggles and says, "Daddy" over and over, to me more than
recompense for any amount of grey hair.  What a joy she is, and
what a blessing!  She's almost nineteen months old, and it seems
such a short time ago that we brought her home.  Thank you Jesus!
When she comes over and pats my leg and then lays her head on me,
I think I am being given a preview of what heaven is like.

Guess what; we are about to be blessed of God with another.  My
wife is four months pregnant, and things are going great.  We
got to look things over with an ultrasound.  Everything looked
perfect.  (We did not find out the sex.  I already know I'll be
overjoyed with either, though.)  It was so awsome to watch the
baby move and spin.  The little heart pounding at 156 beats per
minute, and the tiny jaw bone opening and closing as (s)he swallowed.
The perfectly formed brain lobes, those precious arms and legs.  Wow!
Contemplating the complexity and perfection of my new baby blows
my mind, and all I can say is, Thank you God!

A joy I shared in this morning at church is worth sharing with you.
One of our members was found last week by his sister!  That is, he
was given up for adoption at seven months and brought to the US.
His older sister stayed in Germany for a few years and then moved
to the US herself.  (I didn't get details, but she was in Germany
long enough to cause her to still have an accent.)  She said she
was so worried that he would not want anything to do with the
family that gave him up as a baby.  But she had nothing to fear.
The joy and happiness in Bob's eyes was clear and unmistakable.
I have heard such stories before, at more of a distance.  They
have generally brought a joyfilled tear to my eye.  But today,
no way.  Bob was just too happy.  I couldn't have cried if I'd tried.

It was so wonderful seeing these two people who really did not
know one another acting like they had been together and the best
of friends as well as siblings for those forty years.  It was
really a blessing.  And then to realize that this brother and sister
get to spend their first Thanksgiving together this very week.
It makes me happy just thinking about it.

I'll stop here, because I could write 1000 lines and not have written
the things I can think of to be thankful for; I could write every
thing I could think of and have much more that I couldn't draw to
mind; I could write all those other things, and I would still not
have exhausted the list of things I would be thankful for if I were
simply not so ungrateful.

Thank You God!  My saviour; my lord.  I praise you Jesus.

Lonnie Schubert
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