Tis the season of giving and the season of gratitude, light gives way to dusk, dusk to darkness and if we are not trying to escape, it’s a perfect time for contemplation. Contemplation is not worry. It is a pause from the ordinary to reclaim the extraordinary. It’s a gift we give to ourselves in answer to a call that comes from deep within. And if we are fortunate contemplation is more feeling than words.
There is a silence within us that welcomes us home.
Gratitude wells up there. It arises when we take full stock of all the Good that has come to us and through us. And it arises for no reason at all.
Often the whirlwind of circumstance carries us away but then sometimes by chance and sometimes by purpose we are reminded.
Life is a gift.
It is worthy of our recognition, worthy of our gratitude and worthy of our attention.
We offer up days to celebrate and give thanks. We invite loved ones and strangers into these moments and we hold these times as special and sacred. I have always had a hard time with that – the designation of a day or an hour for celebrating life.
It has always seemed to me that everyday should hold that celebration, that accountability towards all we dearly love.
What a difference could be made in this too often cruel world, if more of us would take the time…extend this time of thanks – even just a bit more.
Be well friends. Seek Gratitude. Share Love and take time for Contemplation
let kindness win 