I hope you all found the time to bond with your family and friends and also thank God for his many blessings in your life. I am totally exhasuted from cooking thanksgiving dinner and I am just looking forward to eating it all :-) (not looking forward to the extra pounds though). I am definitely very thankful this year. I am in good health, have a wonderful family/friends and I am pursuing my dreams. I've had a few ups and downs along the way, including losing an uncle in October and a dear friend on the 19th of Nov. But through it all I know that there is still so much to be thankful for and I choose to dwell on that.
Well for my good deed today, I volunteered at a neighborhood restaurant that was giving out free lunch to the less privileged. The restaurant is THE ALAMO in Riverdale MD, and they have been doing these lunches every thanksgiving for the past 9 years. It is a Mexican restaurant with a lot of character, history and might I add really good food. The restaurant owners have collaborated with various churches over the years and my church happened to be one of them this year. The lunch was served from 12am to 3pm, but the volunteers got there at 11am to get ready and set up the serving stations. I went with one of my very good friends and we both had a good time and I am sure others did to. The people were kind, the portions very generous and the atmosphere was just filled with cheer and love. They served both Mexican and American meals but I was working at the Mexican station and got to learn a few Spanish words lol.
In addition to the lunches, coats, gloves/scarves and bread were also given out. I have to commend the owners of the Alamo for the wonderful job they did. They did not spare on cost and were very organized and welcoming. One of the owners said that one year they served lunch to about 900 people. Wow! I really admire their giving hearts and appreciate all the volunteers that came out to support today because they couldn't have done it by themselves. This a classic example of the great things that can be done when people come together for a good cause. I am just thankful that I was able to be a part of this and I pray that God continues to reward their efforts, and provide for many more meals in the future.
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