Turkey Day Special

Turkey day is coming and I came up with list of what I am thankful for.

1. I am thankful for God’s love, mercy and grace.

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

With all the things that I went through, with all the bad choices I made in the past, it is only by His grace that I can still express my gratitude to the God who gives and takes away. In everything, I still say Amen.

2. I am thankful for my wife and for our marriage
It was the most outrageous of all of my idiosyncratic decisions: getting married. Not that I am underage (hell am over thirty) but it is more of my being under-nourished of life's essential experiences and minerals that need to be strongly squeezed to my convoluted mind tracts like the California freeway. Surely, it has been an exasperating mental and emotional tag of war. But in the end, without much anxiety, after the priest emphatic declaration of the sanctity of marriage inside a small and over staff councilor's office right in the heart of Manila, left my indelible and irrevocable signature on a boring piece of paper that would later undergo a slight scrutiny inside the US embassy as if it were a Unabomber letter.

Do I regret such a hasty decision? Not a bit.

I love my wife who loves all my assiduous eclecticism on anything that put a highlighted definition of ME. It's a tough job on her part. But I am learning also to be more accepting of her uniqueness. I just love the way she loves me that I wonder sometimes how she was able to hold that reservoir of love inside of her. I am no saint and so is she but I get a glimpse of her halo every time she would show grace over my deficiency. A tight hug from those loving arms would affirm that I am back inside her bubble.

I may have not gone to the mountain and wait for the proverbial voice to validate my decisions; I may have not prepared all the fireworks and the ten tier cakes, and had failed to give my wife the wedding of her choice but I am dead sure that as long as I am unwavering to my commitment to this union, we will long enjoy the sunset together.

3. I am thankful for my friends
In this age and time of dog-eats-dog, you are one damn lucky person if you got a friend who is closer than a brother. This may sound like an Oscar acceptance speech, but I am truly thankful to God for continually fattening my social capital. Over the years, I am blessed to have friends who still laugh at my jokes even if the jokes were as old and as cold as a dead turkey