FRIDAY, MARCH 20
Jeremiah 29:5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
“Oh, the Lord’s been good to me,
And so I thank the Lord!
For giving me the things I need:
the sun and the rain and the appleseed.
The Lord’s been good to me!
Johnny Appleseed. AMEN.”
This has been the grace we have sung, while joining hands at our cottage at mealtimes, for as long as the oldest grandchildren can remember. Only rarely is it used outside of the Canadian confines of our beloved gathering place: our sanctuary built from scratch in 1974 by their Grandfather, Jim Munson, with a lot of help from his friends.
One day, as our son David and his family were returning home from Canada to the Boston area, they stopped for lunch at McDonald’s.
When they started to eat their five-year-old, Lucas, reached for the hands of his family on either side of him, and proceeded to sing our cottage grace!
He had learned it well. In only a few days it was already a common practice for him.
Prayer: Would that our thanks to thee become a regular habit, Dear Lord. Amen.
Janet Munson
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