E3P2S: Giving Thanks

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Giving Thanks

It occurs to me that the strongest way to give thanks for this life we are blessed to live is to live it passionately, fully committed to the weight of it; to take it up with a light, richly feeling heart, demanding ourselves to lust in the small details of our daily lives, while striving for the grandeur of our long term plans; as committed to the struggle as to the blessing, knowing the blessings too are given in the struggle. It occurs to me that not only might this be the truest way to give thanks, but also the means to discover a life for which we can be truly grateful.

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Kate MacKayNovember 25, 2009 at 1:56 PM
very beautiful photo.
love to both of you
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InsanitykimNovember 25, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Lovely Elaine!
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E3P2S: The Blog

Facing life in genuine openness means realizing that as much as we do and must plan for our futures, we cannot know what will be, and thus we do not yet know how to engage in what has not yet come to us. Accepting this means seeing too that life is rich in possibility. "No one knows what the body can do." Embracing such possibility comes with facing the constraints of the life we've both chosen, and simply have, and seeing them as the rich earth across which we may expand our horizons. My writing here is an attempt to consider such richness, and embolden such possibility.
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“When people cease waiting for great leaders or prophets to solve entrenched problems and look, instead, within themselves, trusting their own thinking, believing in their own power, and to their families and communities for solutions, change will follow. In traditional indigenous communities, there is an understanding that our lives play themselves out within a set of reciprocal relationships. If each human being in the world could fully understand that we all are interdependent and responsible for one another, it would save the world.” —Wilma Mankiller
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