Here is the deal.  Tonight, I was going to write about “Which Came Firsts” –  You know.  Which came first?  The fishing pole or the fishing line?  The nut or the bolt?  NBC or CBS?   All of this…. because one of the things that has been on my busy brain today is this.  I wonder which came first….. the CAN … or the CAN OPENER.   Now the chicken and the egg always seems to be the big dilemma.  Oh we have heard that line a thousand times before.  But the answer is clear to that one.  After all these years… WHO really gives a CLUCK?

No.  The big “Which Came First” is definitely the can or the can opener debate.  I see no other way around it.

But.  We will have to save that discussion for some other night.  Yeppers.  We will open that can of worms down the road.  Be that what it may.

Tonight, I have bigger things on my mind.  Like…. all the good things in my life.

The Feast of Blessings.   I dine at the table every day of this feast.  Each moment, bringing some new and spectacular dish of life.  Some I savor.  Others I gobble down.  Some of them, it seems…. I just can’t get enough of.  I keep going back and back, time and again, dipping my ladle in the pot.

But now that the bowl is getting empty, and there are no reserves left in that big huge pot,  I must simply sit back in the chair — and be thankful.

Thankful for all the goodness I’ve just been treated to, at this spectacular meal.

There will be other meals.  Just not the same as this one.  And I will have to learn to be even more grateful for the next.

I just hope someone has a can opener handy.

“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.” – Norman Vincent Peale