Today's thanksgiving blessing: My Family wife, children, grandchildren, sister, inlaws, cousins, nieces and nephews

We don't have the perfect family. We each bring our own brokenness or shadow-side with us into every relationship. Nothing is without needed compromise, grace, forgiveness, and on occasion, the ministry of holding one's tongue (cf. Dietrich Bonhoeffer). But I am thankful for my family. My wife is a Proverbs 31 woman, of whom I say, "Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised." My children are a blessing for which I give thanks. Likewise our 9 grandchildren, and all the others. I thank God for my family. It's # 2 on my list. Tomorrow I'll share #1.