Holidays
The Blue Plate at the End of the Table
Every Thanksgiving, Mama set one blue willow plate for whoever the Lord might send. The first year without her, someone rang the bell with a store-bought pie.
Collection · 10 stories
Thanksgiving Stories
Short Thanksgiving stories, poems and prayers about gratitude, to read aloud at the table, in a church group or with your family.
Faith
A Can of Tuna
Holidays
The Empty Hand
Life Lessons
Thankful For The Thorns
Holidays
Thanksgiving Prayer
Kindness
Treasures To Be Thankful For
Faith
ENOUGH OR EMPTY?
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Holidays
Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving Proclamation
About this collection
Thanksgiving stories about gratitude, the kind you can read aloud before the meal, share at a church supper or send to family who can’t be at the table this year.
In A Can of Tuna, a struggling single mother in 1971 shares her family’s last cans of food with a family in greater need. The Empty Hand is the much-loved story of a first grader’s Thanksgiving drawing and what it meant to his teacher, and in Thankful for the Thorns a grieving young mother finds a reason to give thanks during the hardest Thanksgiving week of her life. For the table itself, there’s an old harvest hymn in Thanksgiving Prayer and a page of Thanksgiving quotes on gratitude to read before the blessing.
We add new Thanksgiving stories, poems and devotions each year in the weeks before the holiday. For more seasonal reading, visit our holidays section.