Tonight at Thanksgiving Dinner, B. taught all of us a song.
We sat down to dinner and asked B. and N. to fold their hands and bow their heads to say Grace. Jim gave a nice, simple blessing and we all began to dish out food.
Before B. began to eat she loudly announced that we forgot to sing to the Lord before we ate, which threw me off for a second. We don't usually talk like that at home - not that it is a bad thing, it just isn't a habit for us. Then I realized that she wanted to sing a song she learned in Sunday School. B. carefully folded her hands and sang in her clearest voice
"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 apple seed.
Oh the Lord's been good to me!"
Then she insisted we all sing with her and when a few people at the table said that they did not know the song, she patiently taught it to everyone before asking everyone to sing all together again. We did, and even N. put down his fist full of cranberries and attempted to sing along!
I think it was the best Grace I had ever heard.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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