Holidays bring up so much history.
Holidays carry with them so many experiences of pain and pleasure for many.
Holidays have usually lost their true meaning.
With holiday celebration there is often anticipatory anxiety and the let down afterwards.
This may be true with vacations, new homes, marriages or any special circumstance in life.
To find moderation is all things is to make nothing extra special.
It is a choice to make everyday equally holy.
It is a choice to make everyone equally special.
It is a choice to enjoy each day with gratitude and love.
When we make someone or something special, there often is disappointment.
When we set up high expectations, the anticipation may feel exciting..
When we work hard to have everything go just right, we may miss the mark and feel regret.
When we allow everything to be what it is, focused on simply being together, we are content.
Thanksgiving is simply a time to give thanks, to remember gratitude for our forefathers.
Thanksgiving is a way of inviting everyone to share in the feast of this year’s harvest.
Thanksgiving is an excuse to celebrate family, community, everyone equally valued.
Thanksgiving is a loving reminder of all we have and all we give and receive.
I am giving thanks for my life and for yours.
I am appreciating the country we life in, just as it is.
I am enjoying my health, my relationships, my freedoms and rights, as they are.
I am loving the life experiences I have chosen and the new ones yet to be created.
Sure, everything could be better, if we look for what needs improvement or change.
We could complain about the economy, the health care, the environment and everything if we choose.
We can spend our energy focused on how things need to change or what more we need to do.
We can depress and discourage ourselves by judging and second-guessing all past choices.
This merely takes away from enjoyment and appreciation of right now.
This distracts us from the joy of using this moment for holy and healing purposes.
This depletes our energy and diminishes our vision of what is possible right now.
I choose to use this moment and everyone to bring for the best I know with the Love I AM.
I am loving you as you use the excuse of Thanksgiving to really enjoy today.
So glad we are in each other’s lives.
May this Thanksgiving bring you ever closer to Love yourself really well!
Betty Lue