This morning I searched for a word document for a client, and ran ironically across a file labeled Thanksgiving.

I opened the file. And a memory was sparked.

Thanksgiving 2016. My first Thanksgiving in California.

My daughter, Tarah, brought home college students who couldn’t make it back to their oversea home.

Since the table was going to be filled with ultimate strangers, I gave everyone the below questions ( scroll down ) and told them to choose to respond to all of them or at least one of them.

Not only was my table stuffed with the traditional dinner, but it was filled giggles and smiles.

Even if you don’t have strangers around your table, I think these questions may be fun to do with family members, you have known all your life.

Give it a shot! Make up your own. Why be boring? May the conversation be overflowing, silly, and JOYFUL!

PSALM 118:24 (ESV)

This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

What are you grateful for?

What are you proudest of?

What’s been the happiest moment of your life so far?

What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?

How would you describe yourself as a child? Were you happy?

Who has been kindest to you?

How do you want to be remembered?

If your great great grandchildren could listen to this years from now: is there any wisdom you’d want to pass on to them? What would you want them to know?

If you could honor one person in your life — living or dead — by listening to their story, who would that be, what would you ask them and why?

PSALM 118:24 (ESV)

This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.