I published the post below in 2017. The world has changed since but our feelings toward it seem about the same. That no specific events are mentioned may be why I can look at that today and not be surprised that it doesn’t intimate the world’s current events. I wonder if it would have been as appropriate in 1945 or will be relevant in 2067. I wasn’t here yet for the former and don’t expect to make it to the latter so I will concentrate on 2017 and 2021 and find we are still just as clueless. Pity.
So here is my tale and my prayer from 4 years ago. I will repeat the prayer a few times today. Hopefully I won’t forget to say it on some other days also. That would be the real pity.
Happy Thanksgiving – or maybe we start with just Happy Thursday. Non-holidays need prayers too.
Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. It was or will be likewise around the world. Everybody is thankful for something and most nations have managed to work in a holiday to legitimize the feeling.
I don’t know how others do it but Americans have been managing to delegitimize feelings quite efficiently lately. We’ll tout our tolerance and claim to accept all and then slur anyone who doesn’t feel the same and blur want for welcome. We support everything and everyone as long as it or they support us in the manner to which we think we should be accustomed. Our gratitude for what we have is matched by our appetite for what we don’t.
Sometime today while I think of all that I am thankful for I’ll manage to miss most of them. So will everyone else. Mostly we’re not bad people as much as clueless ones. Clueless to the differences between our reality and the one that’s really out there. And clueless to how much we rely on what we don’t even know is happening.
So when you give your thanks today that hopefully you won’t restrict to just today I offer you the prayer I started today with.
Heavenly Father, this is the day set aside to give thanks for Your surpassing goodness to human beings. Let me give proper thanks for my blessings – those I am aware of as well as those that I habitually take for granted. And let me use them according to Your will.
Happy Thanksgiving today and every day you think to be thankful.
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Lovely prayer!
Thank you
Beautifully and boldly said, my friend. Your prayer is heartfelt and genuine and so close to where all of us live. Our lack of appreciation for what we do have is so often overshadowed by what we think we need and who we need it from, who we want to share it with, who we’re willing to share it with. I appreciate your genuineness and lack of guile.
Thank you