Thanksgiving

This week the United States of America will celebrate Thanksgiving. I think for the most part this country has lost touch with such an occasion. We now think of Thanksgiving as a time of gathering with family and overeating on traditional foods such as turkey, masked potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie and apples. The day is called Thanks and Giving. It seems to me it should be about being thankful and sharing what we have. We have so much to be thankful for and yet we seem so often to be dissatisfied. Perhaps it is because we seek fulfillment in the wrong things. Maybe we should recall that the first celebrants of thanksgiving struggled for a warm home, enough food, safety, warm clothing, freedom of faith and political opinion.....
What, it seems to me, we should value is freedom even as it dwindles with the Patriot Act; abundance as many US citizens are over weight; plenty as our closets are filled and we have warm homes even as inflation nips at our heels; ... What we should strive to increase is peace, health, hope, love, joy, safety, unity, harmony, grace.... What we should share is ourselves and encouragement as well as our resources.
The time is now to be the best we can be, share the best of ourselves, and make a mark on this world by loving others, our environment, God as we understand God, and yes ourselves to unifying wholeness.