Happy Thanksgiving!

Here at the Herr household we're having lots of fun celebrating Thanksgiving! We slept in, had a late breakfast, hung out in our pj's, and now we're watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The kids enjoy it, and it's a fun tradition. Brian's starting to get out my Christmas decorations so I can begin to decorate and put up our window candles, then he'll be outside putting up our Christmas lights! Later today I'll be preparing some things to take to the Herr and Mellinger family get togethers for tomorrow and Saturday. But other than that we'll just be home enjoying time as a family having lots of fun decorating and hanging out in the warmth of our home with one another!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend enjoying family and friends and giving thanks for all that the Lord has blessed us with!

From Mr. Charles Spurgeon ...

"The fear of a man who really knows the love and goodness of God, will be somewhat of this kind: He will fear lest he should really be, or should seem to be, ungrateful. 'What' he asks, 'can I do? I am drowned in mercy. It is not as though my ship were sailing in a sea of mercy; I have been so loaded with the favour of the Lord that my vessel has gone right down, and the ocean of God’s love and mercy has rolled right over the masthead. What can I do O Lord? If thou had given me only a little mercy, I might have done something, in return, to express my gratitude. But oh! Thy great mercy in electing me, in redeeming me, in converting me, and in preserving me, and in all the goodness of thy providence toward me;--what can I do in return for all these favour? I feel struck dumb; and I am afraid, lest I should have a dumb heart as well as a dumb tongue; I fear lest I should grieve Thee by anything that looks like ingratitude.”