As energy that is attractive, creative, and transformative, Gratitude ranks way up there on the list of ways to cultivate a more spacious life. And it doesn’t cost anything but a little mindful attention.
In that spirit I offer two spacious contemplations on this Thanksgiving Day…
“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
“Wherever you are, you could celebrate Thanksgiving today.
Not the Thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest before the long winter, the holiday of pilgrims and pie. That’s a holiday of scarcity averted. I’m imagining something else.
A modern Thanksgiving would celebrate two things:
The people in our lives who give us support and love we need to make a difference, and…
The opportunity to build something bigger than ourselves, something worth contributing. The ability to make a connections, to lend a hand, to invent and create.
There are more of both now than there have ever been before. For me, for you, for just about all of us.”
–Excerpted from “A Modern Thanksgiving” by Seth Godin
What are you grateful for?
What do you notice after naming and feeling your gratitude?
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Amen Stephanie!!!