Happy Thanksgiving

This season of thanks it is also a reminder of loss. It is important to allow ourselves an opportunity to pause and reflect and feel, yes feel the pain of our sadness.

There will be many people missing from my Thanksgiving table…my dad, all my grandparents, an uncle, many many extended relatives, family friends.

As the table grows smaller my heart grows deeper with special memories that bring warmth and comfort.

I am grateful for all the people who have been a part of my life. They have enriched me so.

Relationships are complicated however; including family relationships. Spending time during this day with some people in our lives may be difficult and not especially “happy”.

It has actually been through trying moments and challenges involving some of the people in my life that I’ve grown the most in understanding about myself. For these experiences I am grateful also.

Life is a journey. Each moment unfolds into the next.

This very moment in my life is here because of all that has come before it and brought me to this very place in time.

Willingness allows me to unfold with the journey I am on with strength and peace.

Willfulness holds me back and stands in my way preventing me from peacefully moving forward. All too often I get stuck holding on to the way I want things to be rather than accepting what is standing before me.

On this Thanksgiving Day I wish for you the peace and joy of willingness…may it grace your life and lighten your journey and be whole heartedly served up at your dinner table!

In what ways will your Thanksgiving not be “happy”? How might you allow willingness to touch your heart today?