Surprise!

A Blog Carnival celebrates the ideas and thoughts of a group of people who Post on one theme.  My Post today is part of a Blog Carnival organized and hosted by Bridget Chumbley http://www.bridgetchumbley.com/.  The theme word for this week is fellowship.  This is my contribution.

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The day before Thanksgiving.  A little snow.  A little ice.  Our son and his wife and their two little daughters were driving north to spend the Thanksgiving holidays with us.  Except they were late. 

I’m a Christian.  I’m not supposed to worry.  But still, they were late.

I reassured myself with a list of legitimate reasons for lateness.  Potty breaks for the little girls.  Lunch.  A long lunch.  Road work. 

Then I heard a car in the lane.  A minute later our oldest granddaughter came flying in the door.  “Grandma Sue, Grandma Sue!  We have a surprise for you in the car!  Come see!”

My first thought was a puppy.  Our granddaughters have wanted one… 

I followed my granddaughter outside.  The back door  of their car opened. 

Our daughter?  OUR DAUGHTER! 

I’m crying, hugging her and the grandkids, our son and daughter-in-law, listening to the laughter and the explanations.  Our daughter is a campus ministries missionary in Greece.  She had traveled for two days to surprise us with a Thanksgiving visit.  She and our son and daughter-in-law had plotted and planned…

My husband was outside working on a project.  He came around a corner and saw me hugging – WHO?

More laughter, hugs, tears (still mine). 

Some years our Thanksgiving table is small, but this year it stretched all the way into the living room.  We used every chair in the house and the piano bench, too.  We were crowded to the rafters with parents, grandparents, great grandparents, children, college students, and a baby.  Our fellowship included prayers of gratitude, lots of laughter, a baby’s two-toothed smile, gifts from Greece, my overdone pumpkin pie, my sister’s wonderful homemade rolls…

Joyous fellowship!

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us…”  Ephesians 3:20,21

Blessings!  Sue