This morning I have a stream of gratitude moving through my consciousness, flowing like a mountain stream, bubbling up with images of people, places and events that have created the collage of my life in the past year. At the same time, it’s as if there is a camera clicking in me to set those experiences in place on the canvas of 2017. Because I’m writing about it, the whole experience has become like a freeze-frame of a film and won’t start moving again until I turn back from this explanation to the experience inside me. At that point I suspect what will happen is akin to the result of a bucket of water thrown onto the canvas – or perhaps the “fade” button on a movie camera being pressed – so everything melds together into a heartfelt sensation of grateful love.
Whether or not you can grasp at all what I am trying to relate, one thing that I can say that seems universally understood is my heartfelt wish that this Thanksgiving holiday will lead us all to a deep and peaceful willingness to be grateful for all the blessings that we know personally and as a country.
Happy Thanksgiving!
The Sophia Center for Spirituality 