Oh, the goose bumps!!!

You're submitting this to Scribbit's Write-Away contest for November (Thanksgiving and the letter F) right? You covered both! Fruit, Full, Gratitude, Thanksgiving! Submit, submit.

Now. Go now. :)
(If you don't already know, you can find the link on my blog-but you HAD to have been thinking of that contest with this post...right? If not, you're even more amazing than I thought:)

word verification: unalyze - ha!

Heidi,
It sounds like you do indeed have many things to be thankful for. It is so nice at the end of the year when we mostly think of all the good things. So many times the bad things just float away and are difficult, if not even impossible to remember.

Very touching post. Thanks, friend.

That was beautiful. Thanks.

Heather, you are so sweet--but I already submitted the leaf one from last Sunday to Scribbit. I won't win either way, but it is fun to enter, isn't it? Kazzy--I agree--it is nice to have this time of year to set all the negative aside and focus on the good (tho I hear for those who hate their family or don't have family, this can be a pretty tough time of year). Annette--thank you for your comment! Now I need to get busy and get to reading everyone else's posts today. :)

OOOH, I love the leaf one too. You should NOT be so sure you're not going to win, you silly goose. You're talent is ooozing over here :)

Heidi, I don't know how you do it one day I am laughing hysterically at your post, the next you leave me in awe and thankful myself. I have an award for you on my blog!

Submit to Scribbit I say. If I had your talent I would. I go there for the giveaways cuz that's all I'm qualified to win. No skills required. This is a beautiful post.

What a great blog you have here! Thanks for sharing :)

Christine--you laugh hysterically at my posts? You are my new best friend! Thanks for the award--I'm dashing over there, now. Marivic, thank you. I did submit one already, we'll see what happens. But if I were taking bets, I would bet on Heather's submission. Tigger--thanks for visiting!

Don't know if I'm an apple, pear or plumb, Heidi, but I'm confident that I speak for everyone in saying we think you're quite a PEACH!

Have a wonderful thanksgiving... :)

You, too AJ, though I don't recommend peach pie for turkey day. Have a nice pumpkin one, or if you are really smart, have chocolate and give an extra big piece to your wife! (Thanks, though!)

What wonderful insight! And congratulations on the book being published! I will be excited to read it! :)

Lovely post, I tend to think that we are given seeds, and it's up to us how we sow them - that being said, it's up to us if we choose to sow them or not.
We could just be unhappily munching seeds the rest of our life. Or we could happily sow them, take the time to grow them, and then reap the benefits of said seeds. It's just more work that way!

Lara, thank you! Aqua, what a cool portrait (profile pic). Yep, the complexities of the seed versus the fruit are endless but, in the end, all the good guys get fruit and the bad guys get seeds, and not the kind that can be planted for the purpose of bearing good fruit, either. In the meantime, we just have to make lemonade (there I go, mixing analogies, again!)

This post brings the spirit of Thanksgiving so beautifully!

I love the fruit analogy. And I especially love your expansion on it. Sometimes we DO get seeds! We make a difficult but right choice and we suffer!! Or we make the more easy but wrong choice and enjoy benefits. Still, there is always that other side. There always will be blessing for doing the good. Sometimes eating a sweet fruit isn't as good as watching that fruit grow from a seed before you can eat it!

I am grateful to you my dear cuz. It was so thoughtful of you to send out the email wondering about my whereabouts. Just out of town on business but I am back now and ready for more blogging. Talk with you soon!
Roxanne

Lisa, I totally agree--the good fruits grown from the seeds are a hard row to hoe but they are the best tasting! Roxanne--yay! Glad you are back (you mean, you don't blog when out of town?) hee hee

What a great list of things to be thankful for. Thank you for sharing!

So beautiful. I feel the same about Thanksgiving. I love that you listed how things are better this year than last year. Great post!

Very Lovely post...
It's making my think of all the things i am grateful and thankful for over the past year...

Becky, Alyson and Sabrina, thanks so much--it's a good feeling!

Heidi, this post radiates gratefulness.. Gratefulness to God, and to people around. It is amazing in its sweet simplicity, just makes me feel grateful for everything the Good Lord has bestowed on me...
Thank you for sharing.

Simply lovely!

Thanks Nevada and Dots--your comment really touched me! Thank you so much!