The gravy boat

I have this awesome story about how I became the owner of a gravy boat.  It was last Wednesday evening and we were at our Thanksgiving Eve service.   We had just finished having a time of sharing what we were thankful for and I was still blushing and a bit surprised over the fact that my husband stood and said how thankful he was to God for me.  I sat down as the minister stared his message and it dawned on me - Ah the gravy boat!

Every time I host a holiday meal I realize last minute I don't own a gravy boat and I always resort to putting my yummy homemade gravy into my measuring cups.  I always have good intentions of making sure I pick up a gravy boat during the years and never remember....so here I was again the night before Thanksgiving with no gravy boat.  I quickly put aside the thought and did try to focus on the sermon.  After service we decided to swing by Walmart in hope of finding any old gravy boat to do the job.  With no luck we started to leave empty handed but on the way out ran into some fellow church goes who were picking up extras just in case and I briefly told her how I always forget the gravy boat so I had hoped to find one but had no success.

Thanksgiving came and went and I again served the yummy gravy in my measuring cup and completely forgot about looking for a gravy boat again.  Sunday morning rolled around and I had two people tell me that Kathye was looking for me.  I started to chuckle and sad to the second I bet she knows where I can go for a gravy boat.  To my surprise when she found me she had a cute little wrapped up Christmas bag and in it of course was a beautiful gravy boat.  She said she was out black Friday shopping with her girls and she was at a pottery store and was about to check out and looked up and saw a gravy boat.   The smile that spread on my face when I took out that gravy boat could not compare to how I felt inside.  I hugged her and thanked her for thinking of me and then went off to Sunday school.  As I was sitting in class I kept smiling when I saw the package because I realized her though was so much more to me than the gravy boat.

All during the Thanksgiving service people would share about how much they love our church and have been so blessed by all the friends they have made from the church who are like family to them and have touched their lives.  I listened and thought it was awesome and sort of hope I could feel the same one day.  Don't get me wrong I have many friends from out church but just knew I had not experienced "what  it was" they were sharing - NOW I DO!

I am super excited for next year to share about the GRAVY BOAT and about how touch I was that someone went out of their way and thought about me like that.   I guess it seems kind of silly but the thought means so much and I now have a gravy boat which I will treasure forever.