Thanksgiving has recently passed and harvest season has concluded. This year found many of us searching for reasons to be thankful. Each week and each month have seemed to add stress upon stress. Few of us have escaped the occasional lapse into negative emotions to some degree. Some have been successful at holding on to nuggets of hope each day. Perhaps all of us find ourselves moving between emotions on a daily basis. It is exhausting, is it not?
There is hope. There is peace. There is a reason for thankfulness. There is One Who is True and Just and Worthy of Praise. His Name is Jesus. He is Lord. He is our Hope and Joy. His blessings fill our empty vessel to overflowing. He nourishes our spirit, our soul, our mind, our body.
A cornucopia is a typical symbol associated with the autumn months since it’s history is related to nourishment and it was used to gather the harvest.
The question for us concerns whether we are filling our ‘cornucopia’, our vessel, with blessings from the Lord or with stony burdens. Blessings overflow if we keep looking for them. Keep gathering the harvest of blessings each day.