Archive for November 18th, 2018
Thanksgiving 2018
…a time to come together to give thanks for our blessings. Like last year, I look forward to the joy of sharing this day with family and friends.
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual.” ~Henry David Thoreau
But my heart-self is heavy with thoughts of those who have lost so much in the Camp fire. And the heavy, unrelenting smoke that clouds the air is a surreal deja vu into last year’s Tubbs fire.
As you celebrate this special day take time to pray for all those who have no home, no belongings, and the many who have lost family and friends. Prayers and meditations that in this one moment of Thanksgiving they will find comfort, compassion, love and respite from shock and sorrow.
As Coffey Park, Larkfield, Mark West, Glen Ellen, Fountain Grove begin rising from the ashes, there is hope. But the scars on the landscape and psyches are indelible, as the struggle to find a new norm goes on.
“You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.” ~Bill Gates
We donate what we can; the power of collective meditation and prayer is a gift that can be given everyday.
Blessings!
