A very good Thanksgiving piece I missed

My life, as my mother often observes, is not boring; and more than one friend has expressed surprise at how I have born up under the challenges of the last few years. Well, the credit doesn't really go to me. I am loved by a lot of people, pre-eminently an exceptionally faithful God; and I was fortunate enough to have parents who trained me in one of life's fundamental secrets...which is very well spelled out by Marcia Morrissey in this meditation on 1 Thessalonians 5:18.