If I have one goal in my life, it is to engage in the act of gratitude each and every day, if not each and every moment. In the midst of everything that can go wrong or may not be perfect, there is ALWAYS something to feel blessed about out and to be thankful for.
Last Sunday at Fellowship, my kids and I began exploring the themes of Thanksgiving. We have yet to consider the historical implications of the holiday; we've only discussed the practice of recognizing what you are thankful for in your life.
What this has done for me is to remind me to be mindful of what I am thankful for in my own life. While on a bike ride with a friend on Sunday, I gained insight into a really special one:
I am thankful for the people in my life who encourage me to try new things, to push myself further, and to seize every available moment to experience life.
What are you thankful for today?
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We started three (one for each kid)trees at our house. I hope by Thanksgiving the trees are full of things they are thankful for. I also opened it up to helpful things they have done for others. I think it is a great visual idea. I hope to do each year.
We asked my son once and he told us he was thankful for the decomposers.
He had learned about worms and things in a science class (this must have been second or third grade) and the cycle of life and how decomposers started the cycle off again...
He was thankful for them.
decomposers! I love it.
thanks Shannon...
a post on Thankfulness I wrote a few years ago.
Don't see many UU's write on Thankfulness but it is a compelling reason to believe in God,
"Why do I believe in the Creator?” a Hindu cosmologist asked rhetorically. “Because,” he went on, “I need someone to say ‘thank you’ to.”
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