In mid-October, many of us are putting away our gardens for another year. We are also entering the North American Thanksgiving Season when harvest bounty is at its peak.
We take time to give thanks.
It is relevant to say that from the 2nd Monday in October, Canadian Thanksgiving, to the 4th Thursday in November, American Thanksgiving, many of us think of things to be grateful for. This year, from October 14th to November 28th, there is an almost seven-week period to practice cultivating a light heart full of gratitude.
May you and yours have a Happy Thanksgiving Season!
Wherever you live, Thanksgiving takes place, either as a national observance or with grateful hearts at harvest. It is a time to think back and remember blessings. Even for many who have had difficult times, this is often when they put aside the more negative feelings to remember something good that occurred in their lives.
North America is vast, comprising twenty-three countries and more than two dozen non-sovereign territories, including Bermuda, Aruba, the Cayman Islands, Greenland, and Puerto Rico. Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia and unofficially in countries like Brazil, Germany, and the Philippines. It is also observed in the Dutch town of Leiden and the Australian territory of Norfolk Island.
Recognizing gratitude brings hope and foreshadows more grace in the future, for a grateful heart is a light heart, blooming, lush, and plentiful, like a watered garden.
Cultivating A Light Heart
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Cultivating a light heart
Is a peaceful art
Of inner gratitude
Flowing out like winds of rectitude.
Meditating in our seeming solitary space
We find our multi-dimensional inner-place.
Creation of harmonious discovery,
A journey within, “Oh, wouldn’t it be loverly.”
Seeing all of us in otherworldly Oneness
As present in sublime Consciousness;
Spiritual children, no less,
Of some great Limitless.
If only we could reach our hands
To other lands…
Spread our voices in warmth and melt
The fear and loathing so long felt.
If only love and kindness would be dealt
Perhaps some of heaven’s
Ever-present leaven
Could transform the arrows and the darts.
Reappearing only as peaceful, joyful hearts
Alight with billions of starry sparks,
Sharing our bounty with laughter and caring,
Joining hands in grateful Thanksgiving.
