And while Thanksgiving occurs just once a year, if we practice true gratitude, our thanks and reflection should extend beyond one gathering.
Every day, our homes and workplaces should be places to demonstrate what we believe and how we share the gifts we’ve been granted.
Those gifts come from those who have traveled this path before we did, who made sacrifices, cleared the way, and worked together for the greater good:
“Let us conceive of gratitude in its largest, most beautiful sense, that if we receive any kindness we are debtor, not merely to one man, but to the whole world. As we are each day indebted to thousands for the comforts, joys, consolations, and blessings of life, let us realize that it is only by kindness to all that we can begin to repay the debt to one, begin to make gratitude the atmosphere of all our living and a constant expression in outward acts, rather than in mere thoughts.
“Let us see the awful cowardice and the injustice of ingratitude, not to take it too seriously in others, not to condemn it too severely, but merely to banish it forever from our own lives, and to make every hour of our living the radiation of the sweetness of gratitude.”
Ingratitude is indeed a shabby failing.
We can do better.
Wishing you the best this holiday season with a grateful heart for being part of this little community.
There’s so much to learn,
