Why be thankful?  Who said because a day on the calendar says Thanksgiving, you have to give thanks?

The greatest power we have is in the power of choice.  Have no thanks today?  Good for you, then own it.  I have no thanks today and that’s just where I’m at.

Full of genuine love today – good for you!  Spread the love and enjoy.

If we give ourselves and others permission to be right where they are, something happens.

We learn to sit right were we are, without struggling, without anxts, without some pressure to be anywhere other than here.

We learn about the space within space, the tiny moment of now.  We learn to have grace when we just aren’t ‘feeling it’.

We can be irritated today – go ahead.  We can be full of joy.  We can be just as we are on any other day.  We can get angry.  We can fake nice.  We can laugh.  We can feel sorry for ourselves.  So go ahead – be you.  There is only one you.  If this is the you that brings you closer to joy – then go for it.

Life may not be turning out how you thought it would.  Are you fatter?  Do you have less money?  No one likes you?  You are lonely?  You feel envy?

Well good.  Just sit in all this genuine and authentic emotion.  Just love you.  Just how you are.  If you want to.  You may not be thankful. That’s ok I’m thankful for you.  I may not even know you, and yet I know you have purpose.  Maybe you’re struggling.  Good.  Maybe the path is mercurial.  Good.  These are places the wise learn to sit in.

These emotions shift..  These thoughts pass.  If we choose, we can activate our desire to grow, and see each state, as a gift, for our own learning.

What we choose in each moment is really what defines our state.  I choose to look for the light and stick closely to it.  To see those darker parts of self and shine brightly into them.  To love all those spaces.  For if I can learn to love all of me, then I can learn to love all the world has to offer.