Happy Thanksgiving!
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
So Run for the Roses, as fast as you can.....
May everyone here know the blessing of completed gratitude -- for there must be one to receive thanks as well as to give them if the word is to mean anything beyond "I'm happy about things being the way they are."
For one day, it is good to remember that my own happiness, comfort, and desires are not the be-all and end-all, and that everything I have came to me both from Another and from the hands of my fellow human beings. I didn't create or raise the animals and crops that provided the food that will be on my table today; I live in a house that was built by others; the clothes on my back and in my closet were spun, woven, dyed, and sewn by others' labor. The books and music I enjoy came from the thoughts of others, and every moment of friendship or fellowship I have ever enjoyed needed others. My own acts and labors have contributed to my having these things, but only in part, and not by any means the largest part -- nor were the gifts of mind and body which I make use of my own creation.
It would be good if I remembered these things all year round and not on just one special holiday. Perhaps if I did -- if I were less convinced of my own self-sufficiency and less concerned with my own self-interest -- if I experienced and expressed true gratitude to my God and my fellow human beings every day -- I would be a kinder, more generous, more humble, and much wiser person.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all, and God bless you. Thank you all for being a part of my life.
For one day, it is good to remember that my own happiness, comfort, and desires are not the be-all and end-all, and that everything I have came to me both from Another and from the hands of my fellow human beings. I didn't create or raise the animals and crops that provided the food that will be on my table today; I live in a house that was built by others; the clothes on my back and in my closet were spun, woven, dyed, and sewn by others' labor. The books and music I enjoy came from the thoughts of others, and every moment of friendship or fellowship I have ever enjoyed needed others. My own acts and labors have contributed to my having these things, but only in part, and not by any means the largest part -- nor were the gifts of mind and body which I make use of my own creation.
It would be good if I remembered these things all year round and not on just one special holiday. Perhaps if I did -- if I were less convinced of my own self-sufficiency and less concerned with my own self-interest -- if I experienced and expressed true gratitude to my God and my fellow human beings every day -- I would be a kinder, more generous, more humble, and much wiser person.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all, and God bless you. Thank you all for being a part of my life.
"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher...You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse." C. S. Lewis
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I hope you all have a wonderful dinner with family/friends. Enjoy the day and let us all reflect on the wonderful men and women that make this day possible for us by putting their lives on the line for us. God Bless our Service men and women, our first responders , the doctors and nurses that take care of us in our time of need. God Bless our brothers and sisters who are cancer survivors and those that are fighting to be. God Bless us all and the United States of America.
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To follow Mahuba
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
Marcus Aurelius
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
Marcus Aurelius
The sport and industry survive not only because of the champions that are remembered forever but also because of the losers that are so easy to forget...
Mahubah wrote:May everyone here know the blessing of completed gratitude -- for there must be one to receive thanks as well as to give them if the word is to mean anything beyond "I'm happy about things being the way they are."
For one day, it is good to remember that my own happiness, comfort, and desires are not the be-all and end-all, and that everything I have came to me both from Another and from the hands of my fellow human beings. I didn't create or raise the animals and crops that provided the food that will be on my table today; I live in a house that was built by others; the clothes on my back and in my closet were spun, woven, dyed, and sewn by others' labor. The books and music I enjoy came from the thoughts of others, and every moment of friendship or fellowship I have ever enjoyed needed others. My own acts and labors have contributed to my having these things, but only in part, and not by any means the largest part -- nor were the gifts of mind and body which I make use of my own creation.
It would be good if I remembered these things all year round and not on just one special holiday. Perhaps if I did -- if I were less convinced of my own self-sufficiency and less concerned with my own self-interest -- if I experienced and expressed true gratitude to my God and my fellow human beings every day -- I would be a kinder, more generous, more humble, and much wiser person.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all, and God bless you. Thank you all for being a part of my life.
Wonderful thoughts - thanks for the reminder Mahubah
jm
Run the race - the one that's really worth winning.