Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving we are supposed to give thanks for the joys of life. We do, but the rest of the 364 days of the year we forget about Thanksgiving. As humans we complain about what we do not have instead of be thankful (grateful) for what we do. We have life. With life we can recreate our lives everday. We can experience life in the ways we would like. We can eat new foods starting today, starting now. We can drive a new direction if we would like. We can call our family and friends more starting with one call. We can always choose something different when we wake up. I am choosing today as the day I surrender my life to the Divine. I've been going through life asking the Divine for what I want. I should have been asking what I was born to be. With that fate I am asking God to allow me to see it and be that. I want to be according to the Divine's will. I have to grateful to be alive. I have to be grateful for every gift and ability life affords me. Right now is all I have. Today, I will plant the seeds of gratitude in my life, knowing and believing that they will bloom to the goodness and glory of the Divine.

This gratitude has to expand the way I think about myself. There's nothing I can dream that God hasn't dream for me. Anything is possible. I can be whatever the Divine wants me to be. I can be the vessel to facilitate the Divine's law of truth. I have to live that truth. I have to commit myself to the will of the Divine. I have to live without fear of death. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ghandi are perfect examples of living without fear of death. Their short lives have had so much impact on the people who they personally touch, but their philosophies and lives are standard we all can obtain. We have to live each day as if it is our last. Don't just think about calling your mom and telling her you love her. Do it! You never know when it's your last day or her last day on Earth. When you're thinking about changing the course of your life, do it! There's no time better than the present to do the things you want to do. And each time you change, be grateful that you lived one more day to fulfill the promise of your life.