Dig deep in your brain
Remember November now
It’s gratitude month
In Novembers past
Remember who you shared with
Then count your blessings
Time has changed a lot
Large gatherings here are gone
I hope they’ll return
Family is so precious!
Family: the people you choose to love
Remember the days
When decorations were seen
All around the house?
Will we still create
A festive mood this season
Without the big crowd?
Don’t cry for me!
We won’t gather round this table this year
for our Thanksgiving celebration…
but we will be with dear friends –
and our son will be with family
in a lovely California destination.
My heart goes out
to family and friends
who will experience
The Empty Chair
this year.
Several of our friends
Relate to the empty chair
Missing who was there
If you’re only two
And the group is not around
Be grateful for two
Thank the Lord you have
One another and rejoice
Then join friends of choice
Have a Memorable and Blessed November!
God bless You!
Lotsa Love,
JanBeek
God Bless
My “friend of choice!”
I’m so grateful to have him here…
(That was our 60th anniversary photo!)
JanBeek 
Comments on: "Remember November" (19)
I still love to decorate, even thro there has been so many changes in my life, I praise God for keeping me and my daughters safe each and everyday, and that he walks with us in this journey of life.
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Bless you and your daughters! Thank you for reading and commenting. Have a marvelous, blessed month!
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Blessings to you and your family
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Thank you so much! 👍🏽❤️
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I would love to sit at your table and share Thanksgiving day with you. It’s hard to believe it’s already November! Where did 2022 go? As I reflect on that question I realize that I’ve done a lot so far this year with traveling and visiting family and friends, weddings, changing jobs and working, home improvements and much more. I am so thankful for my many blessings and especially for you! 💜 🤗
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And I’m thankful for you, too. Love ya, Laina!!
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A time to be thankful! We have lost so many over the past couple of years!
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Thank God for our faith, huh? We know we’ll all be together one day 👍🏽❤️🙏🏽
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Always a delight to read your poems dear Jan, and this is full of Gratitude.. and I am sure those family gatherings will once again sit around the table..
So happy you are celebrating with your Son and family.. Enjoy when Thanksgiving comes around..
Lots of love Jan… ❤ Stay Blessed ❤
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Thank you so much, Sue. Our celebration with Ty and his family will be at Christmas. Thanksgiving will be with friends here in Ennis. I hope you have happy plans for the holidays, too. Thank you for your kind comment, Sue. God bless you!
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Here in England we do not celebrate your beautiful Thanksgiving in November.. As to Christmas… as yet our plans have not been made… 🙂 But I know like you, we will enjoy among family members.. 🙂 Sending Love and Hugs dear Jan ❤
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Thank you so much for the love and hugs, Sue. I feel them! ❤
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🤗💖🤗
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I am one of the empty chair families this year, but we will gather with the rest of our family, cousins and grandkids and even a friend or two, and say a prayer not only for our lost one but for ourselves as well. We have so much to be thankful for every day. Your blog inspires me!
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Thank you so much for your affirmative response, Claudia. I am so sorry to hear that the Empty Chair poem fits your family this year. Prayers for you and your family as you face the holiday season without your loved one present in the flesh. I know his/her spirit will be with you.
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I do believe it will. 💕
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I love Thanksgiving, and your blog makes me smile
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Thank you so much! Your comment makes ME smile!! 😊
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November fills with our remembrances of family and friends, our veterans, and those special blessed moments.
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