Thank You!

...and today happens to be Thanksgiving in America. What a coincidence! 

While it is a good thing to be consistent in these things, I want to believe that our giving of thanks, and this has nothing to do with religion specifically, is not something that we should reserve for a special day. That it becomes special only because we want to be elaborate about the things we are thankful for and the reasons for them.

In this year alone, so much has happened. In fact, sometimes we think we have seen it all, then even more horrific happens and we wonder. So much has gone down in this year alone; from continents, to nations, to homes, and individual lives. But, are we hopeful for a better next year? Absolutely. Surely we must keep hope alive? And we should be thankful that despite everything that has happened we are still here to recount the tale.

I hope that our giving of thanks will not become a routine, like saying ‘thank you’ out of politeness, not necessarily because we are truly grateful for something that someone has done even if it was a service that we paid for. I hope that our giving of thanks does not become decades-old tradition that has somehow lost its true meaning, but which we carry on because we must. That today (and tomorrow, and always) we will make an effort to muse on gratitude, for things that we have, who we are, even for those events that are perplexing.

I hope that thanksgiving will become something we are deliberate and consistent about...daily!

Be free oh. And thank you for reading.