Good Morning - Happy Thanksgiving

Published: Thu, 11/27/08

November 27, 2008.... from Brook Noel
 www.maketodaymatter.net

Good Morning

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.  ~Thornton Wilder

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appy Thanksgiving! I have been doing a lot of "listening" this November to what's on people's minds. I began collecting a list of some of the themes I most often heard:

  •     Fear over the future of the economy
  •     Fear about covering bills
  •     Worry about the impending holidays and preparations
  •     Recaps of aches and pains (physical and mental)

    • Now let me tell you some of the themes I didn't hear:

  •     How thankful people were they had shelter
  •     How thankful people were for their family
  •     How thankful people were for this day

    While I am sure those themes are in the hearts of many, they are not on their lips. We seem more prone to share what we have to live without than all the wonderful things we live with.

    • Like many, I too find these times to be stressful, but what of that? I know stress only grows if I choose to let it. Instead, I choose to be thankful that I have known good times so that I know what stressful times are. There are many who have never known anything but stress, many who have to fight for food or clean water, many who have no home, let alone a mortgage to lament over.

    Sure, the grass is always greener--somewhere. But this Thanksgiving morning I wonder how often we make that grass greener somewhere else because we look so longingly at it. If we spent as much time looking at, and being thankful for, the grass beneath our own feet, we might discover it is the greenest of all.

    Your Turn:
    Today collect a list of all that is right in your life; all that you have to be thankful for. Do not look beyond yourself, look within. If you are reading this, then surely you have a computer--so there is one for your list. And I am guessing you aren't reading this outside--so that is number two. Keep going. See how long you can make your list and then share it if you like on the blog. Watch how your attitude and energy shift when you replace your list of worries with a list of blessings.

    My first entry of the day is all of you... my heartfelt thanks for taking your valuable time to share and read my work. I appreciate you all more than words can say.

    Today's Affirmation: I collect blessings.
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