Happy Thanksgiving to all our American followers. Being a sad man, I looked up the number of views Fractured Faith has had this year. Of the 79,053, over 45,000 of these were from the good old U.S of A. I have no idea what you see in the ramblings of a Northern Irish man but I am thankful today for all of you. Have a great day, don’t eat too much turkey and let’s hope the Redskins beat the Cowboys!
How are you Thanksgiving Day?
I hate Guinness and I’m Irish. What national treasure do you despise?
What NFL/College team do you follow?
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We are Stephen and Fionnuala and this is our story. We live in Northern Ireland, have been married for 17 years and have three kids - Adam, Hannah and Rebecca.
We hope that our story will inspire and encourage others. We have walked a rocky road yet here we are today, together and stronger than ever. We are far from perfect and our faith has been battered and bruised.
But an untested faith is a pointless faith. Just as a fractured faith is better than none at all.
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Thanks for remembering us. I hate pumpkin pie
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That sounds truly vile 😂
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Yes, it’s almost like baby doo-doo with a dash of cinnamon and cloves.
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Although we are Canadian and celebrate our Thanksgiving in October, hubster loves Guinness, and is a huge Pittsburgh Steeler’s fan.
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Yes, our Hannah informed me Canada celebrated on a different date. She is obsessed with Shaun Mendes so is a bit of an expert on your country.
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She could be enamoured with worse entertainers the Shaun 😉
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Sorry, worse than…
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Food-wise I can’t think of anything I despise. Actually, I despise not the UT Volunteers, but the fact that around these parts (Knoxville, Tennessee) they are the religion! So, I suppose that I despise the UT fan base’s idealism! lol… As for food, I’m flexible.
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I’ve never heard of them but I get your point. Sport is a religion to many people.
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I love my country, but on Thanksgiving I have no interest in football, maybe because others are so obsessed with it. One of my favorite writers, Erma Bombeck, suggested that a law should be passed that any man that watches more than 15 consecutive hours of football may be declared legally dead. 😉
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Ha Ha. 15 hours is a bit excessive, even for me 😂
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Eh hmm. The team where I live is Dallas. I will be against the other team always until they change their name. Btw (I don’t watch much American football as of late!
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Meh to Dallas lol.
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Shout out from Texas, not far from the Dallas Cowboys!
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BOOOOOOOO! 😉
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Yay Dallas Cowboys! I married a redskiner. I too hated Guinness when I drank. But for us here in southern central PA -moved here a year ago from Baltimore we thoroughly love Cranberry sauce! Btw hubby relatives are from western Ireland and mine are from Kilkenny Ireland! Xoxox
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I’m from the northern part. Boo to Guinness and the Dallas Cowboys. Commiserations to your husband 😉
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guinness? icky! I’m irish and I hate it too! haha! xo
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It is disgusting lol
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I despise football, actually 😹
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Many do 😊
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Happy Thanksgiving! I’m not a fan of pumpkin pie..,but I love Texas A&M!
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Belated Happy Thanksgiving Ellie 🇺🇸
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Thank you!
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Thanks for the Thanksgiving wish! We have traveled 13 hours by car to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to practice being thankful with a friend. Thankful to be able to take the week off to be able to do it. No football or black Friday involved.
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That’s a long drive. Hope you get home safe.
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Thanks! Home safe and sound.
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
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Thank you. And the same to you.
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Nice one
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I live in Buffalo & we all know that Canada celebrates in October they’re right over the border. It’s the same day as our Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day.
I adore pumpkin pie but I adore almost everything. My mother prefers sweet potato pie. My son likes french vanilla ice cream with his pie but I like whipped cream with my pumpkin pie. Vanilla ice cream belongs with apple pie.
Everyone here talks about it being a “family day” but I haven’t been invited to a family event in years. It used to bother me but it doesn’t anymore. I’m at the point where I prefer to stay at home & cook. I’ve been cooking for three full days. I did a ham with mac & cheese on Tuesday & yesterday, I baked two loaves of bread & the pumpkin pie & today, it was the homemade stuffing for the turkey & then roasting the turkey, making the mashed potatoes & gravy, acorn squash & corn bread. We also had a green salad. It was just my son & me. I LOVE THANKSGIVING. I LOVE TO COOK. I was totally exhausted by 4:30, all the dishes & clean-up & I went to bed at 5pm !!! so here I am up at midnight with a cup of tea. But it’s a beautiful full moon & I am THANKFUL to be sober today.
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Wow! I must drop around your house next year 😊
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My goodness, that is a lot of love and work!
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Hi Stephen, thank you for the Thanksgiving wishes. I have Irish in me, would love to visit someday. I grew up playing softball and watching baseball, still ok with me as a national pasttime. I love apple pie and turkey dinners, holidays in general. Now with a relationship with God, holidays mean more than they ever did.
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Thank you Julie. Yes, you must visit Ireland. It’s a great place.
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I’m not fond of the dinner rolls everyone else seems to grab soon as they’re out of the oven . . . as I type this while wearing my Dallas Cowboys hoodie.:-)
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I’d prefer not to talk about Dallas after the result 😕
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Thank you! And I forgive you for that comment about the Redskins beating the Cowboys…NOT! I’ve been a Dallas fan forever☺️
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Yes. We are rubbish 😂
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Thanks you, very much from Colorado. A little belated, but thanks. We had a slightly historic occasion on this thanksgiving. We had four generations at the table. Told my father and mother in law to hang in there. I wanted it to become six. National treasures I despise? Well, nothing’s coming to mind. And I’m a Broncos fan (as long as they’re winning of course, and they haven’t been a lot of that since Peyton Manning retired).
Ireland is one of the places on my bucket list. Of course their’s so many places on my bucket list I want to visit that I may never die. SUPPOSEDLY, some of my ancestry comes from Ireland. The trail get’s a little dim in places, and I may have to settle for a genetic test to be able to claim that. Either way, I’d love to see your country.
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Yes. You must definitely visit William. That must have been a fantastic dinner table to sit around.
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Apple Pie. I hate apple pie.
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We will have to agree to disagree on that one 😊
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Love Thanksgiving because the family gathers. My husband is the real beer drinker and cheers for his birth-town team, the Detroit Lions. He is a very hopeful man.
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I suppose you would need a few beers to get through a Lions match 😉
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It is so wonderful how we can gather in the community and support each other, no matter where we are from!
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Most definitely 🙂
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