With Thanks

Fr. Ray Browne and Timmy Donnelly at our Thanksgiving Dinner.

Mary Concar, Brenda Ray, Jolene Hanson, Anne Donnelly, and Chris Collins at Thanksgiving Dinner.

Thanksgiving in Four Mile House, Co. Roscommon, IRL 2007

Our thoughts this Thanksgiving are with our friends and neighbors in Roscommon, Ireland. Last year, we held our American Thanksgiving Dinner with 29 of our dearest Irish friends and our Hope family. Although we cannot be there this year, we are grateful for the few years we had with our Irish friends. They have continued to be wonderful neighbors, even in our absence. They have looked after our home since we have returned to the states and have been better neighbors at 3,000 miles distance than many folks have right next door! The Lord is good to us as He surrounds our lives with such wonderful people.

To all of our Irish friends, we wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving! We remember you with gratitude today...

"So here's to you and yours and mine and ours. If mine and ours ever come across you and yours, I hope that you and yours will be as kind to mine and ours as mine and ours have been to you and yours!" -- an Irish toast.