Better to mourn than to feast?
Ecclesiastes 7:2 tells us that, "it is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart." On this day after Thanksgiving, this passage speaks to my heart so profoundly. Thanksgiving day is perhaps my favorite holiday, one that is about being grateful and being with those we love. As always, this year I again enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving day. There was an overabundance of food and drink, laughs, stories, sports, and family. We ate in ways that we do not normally eat...and then continued to eat after we overate. The wine jugs were refilled often. No matter how many times we repeated, "I ate too much" we continued to eat some more. Thankfully, intertwined in the moments of feasting, we paused to thank our God for all of His goodness to us. Prior to our overeating, we stopped to give thanks, and to pray for those who have gone before us. In a special way,