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Another Wonderful Thanksgiving Day
Posted on November 30, 2008
Filed Under Personal |
I love Thanksgiving. Although we didn’t have our entire family together, we at least had our local clan, some family friends and four of my Institute students.
It was a great day:
8 a.m. Mr. Turkey and I climb into the ring for our annual tussle. My objective is to get him balanced on the spit. His objective is to ruin my day. I learned a long time ago that it is almost impossible to get a spit through the center of gravity of a 17-pound turkey. So, I use an armload of c-clamps to balance the weight so that the rotisserie motor doesn’t burn out trying to get the heavy side up the hill. Mr. Turkey loses.
9 a.m. I arrive at Ford Frik Park for our annual flag-football Turkey Bowl. I strap on my yellow flags and take the field with a host of Focus employees and friends who gather to determine bragging rights for the next twelve months. Although I had a great time and escaped without injury, I will not be bragging this year.
2 p.m. Twelve guests arrive. Mr. Turkey greets them with a wonderful aroma. Everyone has brought something to add to the buffet table. I read Psalm 96 and we enjoy great fellowship over a delicious 
and bountiful meal. We are so blessed. The students ask questions and we ponder some answers together.
5 p.m. We play Cranium. Although I am usually good at spelling, I misspell hippopotamus and fail to identify the location of a Bosnia peace accord meeting. Our team comes in dead last, but we have a lot of fun and share much laughter.
7 p.m. If you can believe it, we eat again—crafting some tasty snacks from leftovers. We play another game, talk about the blessings God has poured out upon us over the year, and wrap things up for the evening.
10 p.m. The last guest departs and another wonderful Thanksgiving Day comes to an end.
The Lord has been so abundantly good to us this year. A few days earlier, we got the wonderful news that my son-in-law had returned safely from his tour in Afghanistan. He, our daughter and their four children are reunited after so long and were able to enjoy Thanksgiving together.
God is so good.
It would be hard to recount the deep blessings that we have heard from all over the world as the Lord is working deeply within the hearts and minds of His children through our humble efforts with the Truth Project.
He is also doing a wonderful work in the lives of our Institute students. They are so special and I 
enjoyed having some over to share our Thanksgiving together. By the way, if you know of some college or post-graduate students that would like to join us for the Spring semester, there are still some slots available.
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Finally, thank you all for tuning in to this blog.
You are like family as well.
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As an engineer and looking with amused satisfaction at your splendid c-clamp work, I think you might have had a second calling as one of us. Happy Thanksgiving.
Although the TRUTH PROJECT got off to a very rough start and we still have folks that can not make every meeting, it has been a blessing for both myself and my wife. We have grown closer to one family of 6. They brought the Ham and other great treats for Thanksgiving. The main subject was how to live a Christian life and focus mainly on God. Food and conversation was full with turkey and all the trimming. Later we relaxed and had a great belly laugh with Ken Davis. As usual the time together went by way too fast and our bond is growing stronger every day. Thank you again for getting our focus back where it should be.
God bless,
Ramon & Darrelyn
I too was amused by the C-clamps. Next year make it easier on you and Mr. Turkey–deep fry him in peanut oil. If you’ve never had fried turkey, once you do, I promise you’ll never pull out those C-clamps again! Drop him in the oil at 325 degrees and he’s done in 1 hour flat! You and your family will be amazed!
My wife and I will wrap up the Truth Project at our church this Wednesday. Thanks for your obedience to God in this much needed ministry!
I got to hand it to you..I would never have gotten my wife to let me use my tools to help cook our turkey. I laughed, I cried, I ate more turkey!
God Bless and Have a joyful Christmas season! Feels great to still be allowed to say such a thing!
Today I got to know a business man who lives about 45 miles northwest of us. Turns out he is a devout fellow believer and he asks me if I ever heard about the Truth Project! I feel that if believers were to really grab on to this wonderful teaching, God would use it for good in unprecedented ways. Go God!!!
Mike W
Thanks Mr. Tackett for the work that you and your colleagues have put into this Truth Project. I realize it has come through a lot of hard work, sacrifice and perseverance both for you and your family. This is my third time leading a group but my first since moving to Warsaw Poland. It is a wonderful experience and the Lord is using it in exciting ways even now in Eastern Europe.
My Thanksgiving was shared with my wife, my sister, my 87 year old Dad, and my 91 year old Mom. It was quite possibly our last Turkey day together as a “whole” family; Mom has cancer, my Dad is withering even as we watch. Brings back many fond memories of Thanksgivings past. Just finished your “Truth Project”. What a great time we had sharing your classroom. Whose jacket was left on the coat rack? We felt like you were asking us the questions personally, even though you leaned heavily on Grant. Looking forward to Christmas; means more than ever in this troubled world.
Thank you so much for the work you and your colleagues have done with the Truth Project. My group here at Arizona State University (Tempe Campus)have just finished the Truth Project this past Sunday. I have definitely walked away from this experience with a different perspective on how I view the world around me. The last lesson really brought it home that we as college students here At Arizona State should begin to show the students here love and that we are here for them. This is something that I definitely will take with me for the rest of my life.
Thanks so much for “sharing” your day with us. What a blessing it was. Now we look forward to the birth of our saviour, Jesus Christ.
My husband is also very creative with cooking using hardware as Dell expertly displayed. By far the best turkey he has cooked is the upside-down version this last Thanksgiving. You might want to try it Dell…it also involves some tussling but without c clamps.