It is the day after Thanksgiving...
Black Friday is its new name...
Stores are thankful for good weather...
Stores are thankful for customers...
Customers buying deals...

Truck haulers are thankful for work...
Deals being delivered to stores...
Manufactures are thankful for truck drivers...
Truck drivers are thankful for good roads...
Good roads and good weather...

TV and radio stations are thankful...
Thankful for advertising revenue...
Thankful for the seasonal programs...
Christmas movies...
Santa and deer delights...

Churches are thankful for increased attendance...
Children are thankful for Christmas plays...
Christmas plays add to the excitement...
Celebration of Jesus's birth...
Celebration of Santa's visit...
Children can easily celebrate each...
Each independently...
They are thankful for both...

Often adults get too involved with giving...
What to give and who to give..
Often adults miss the joy...
They hide the joy under worry...
Children do it better...
A child's heart is easier to fill with joy...

Love is a powerful source of joy...
Hugs can carry joy...
Smiles can carry joy...
All ages can spread joy...
Christmas joy travels well...

We all have the opportunity to spread love...
We all can spread joy...
We all can find things to be thankful for...
Family, friends, happy children...
Simple joy spreaders...

No one has a perfect life...
No one has a worry free life...
Some people just hide problems better...
Better than others...
We all go through dark periods...

Search your heart...
Look for the joy in your life...
Look for what you are thankful for...
Seek what makes you smile...
Hug a friend or a family member...

Volunteer at a food bank...
Volunteer with people...
People who need help...
You may find that you have...
Have more to be thankful for than you think...

More About Judge Rembert: WWII made Judge an only child when her half-brother was killed in the war. She lived in a tiny town in South Carolina until she was eight and her Mother went to work. She was sent to a boarding school in Belmont, N.C. From that time on she has lived back and forth in the two Carolinas. They are both home. She was born dyslexic and did not know what the problem was or that it had a name until she was about 45. She was unable to spell so she never put words on paper until she was 65 and had a computer with spell check. She comes from a long line of story tellers and a Mother that taught her much by telling stories. Stories about people and how they faced life and how they dealt with problems. If you read what she writes you may hear her Mother and her Grandmother talking to her. She is thrilled to know that anyone reads her words and finds them interesting. Oh, she is 75 now and she now makes her home in Aiken, S.C. If you like Judge’s writings or would like to comment on them let her know by emailing [email protected]