We are madly preparing to host Thanksgiving this year! Even so, I want to take some time to reflect on what giving thanks means. I found this quote which I feel, sums up my feelings about Thanksgiving of the heart.
” Gratitude…goes beyond the “mine” and “thine’ and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as agift of love, a gift to celebrated with joy”. Henri J.M. Nouwen
rob Says:
December 7th, 2007 at 9:56 amVisit rob
It was a great feast with great company ^_^ thank you for having us