The first Thanksgiving wasn’t really in 1621. It happened thousands of years before, when some human, somewhere, found that glowing feeling in their heart. The overwhelming sensation of ultimate gladness. Something happened somewhere to them, and suddenly, they found this awareness for the first time. They were thankful.
And so it continues.
The giving of thanks.
The gratitude.
All the time, do we hold the quality of being thankful?
The absolute readiness to show appreciation for something like breathing? The ability to stand on our own? To hear the spoken word? To create our own thoughts? These are magnificent, all. The ant working with his fellow ants. The veins of the leaf on the tree. The plug at then of the cord on the toaster, that makes it work so well. These too, are magnificent.
Grateful for these. And then. To return the kindness.
The small. The large. The in-between. Appreciation. For all of the things that are right here before us.
Giving thanks.
Happy Thanksgiving.
I am thankful for you.
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” — Melody Beattie
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“When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.” — Sam Lefkowitz
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“If the only prayer you said in your life was ‘Thank you,’ that would suffice.” — Meister Eckhart
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