Father Don actually published this last week, but given it's Thanksgiving, I felt it appropriate to share with you today:
"Each of us has her or his own list of items for which to be thankful. We can start at the outer edges of this vast universe or begin in the depths of our own being. Either way, our life, our existence is a fabric of gifts, items whose origin was not our doing. Especially those of us in relatively good health, living a comfortable existence in a much-blessed country, have no excuse for whining and complaining. As the chronically ill and the poor so often teach us to our embarrassment, there are so many things, so many people, so many events for which we should be thankful. We'd do well to list for ourselves all the gifts that make our life so livable -- and more."
We can and do audit our pains, slights, and times where we had to suffer indignity or unfairness. However, if we chose to audit our blessings in addition, the ledger it'd create would be embarrassing.
We have been deeply blessed - all of us. Let's take some time today to truly be cognizant of it, and thankful for it.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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