Making Thanksgiving
Matter
I love
Thanksgiving. It’s my favorite holiday. This is a day filled with thoughts of
gratitude, family and food; what’s not to like? (Okay, maybe the whole stealing
of the land from the First Nation folks and all. As the saying goes; “If you
look at anything too closely it will break your heart.”)
On this day, folks in the U.S take time
out to actually articulate what they are grateful for. For a moment, the nation’s vibration is sky high and even without booze
or the turkey’s tryptophan, we feel that everything good is possible.
Then just as
quickly as it came, the feeling goes. Someone needs to stand in line for stuff
they don’t really need, while grown men argue over a football game that is as predictable
as the one from last year or the year to come. Someone will bring up ObamaCare
also known as the Affordable HealthCare Act and all hell will break loose.
A kid who’s
been watching it all will wonder if she will end up like this, but then will go
back to making a list of more stuff that someone needs to stand in a line for.
A woman tired
from cooking will wash dishes and wonder if the one who came with her son will
offer to help her in the life she both loves and hates and no one’s even
talking to grandma.
Still, this
day brings us closer to seeing that we already have and are enough.
If we could just
spend a little more energy on gratitude and a lot less on stuff, that vibration
of endless possibility would linger and we could make the world a much better
place.
So let’s you
and I do what it takes to really turn the tables. Change only needs a few to
get the movement started.
Tell someone you love them.
As my mother would say,
today is just another (BLEEP) day; it’s you that makes it special.Tell someone you love them.
Listen to an elder
Laugh with a child
Serve someone in need
Listen for ways to agree
Know that you are wonderful
Be grateful for all that already is
Be you, be well, be
full of thanks.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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