Love and Light: Thankful

Monday, 10 October 2011

Thankful

This past weekend was Thanksgiving here in my beautiful country...Canada.

a wonderful time to reflect on those things I am thankful for
such as...
~living in a freedom where I can openly express my Faith and not have to meet with others in secret
~the abundance of bounty
~the blessing of a home I can call my own

~the gift of family
~the challenge of children who make me grow
~the love of a committed husband and friend

~the joy of preparing a feast for others
~the means to be able to feed many
~the desire to share my life
~the blessing of invested relationships

~I am thankful for a job I love and the possibility of the job to come
~I am thankful for crackling fires on a cold day
~I am thankful for a warm bed at night

~thankful for friends who share their hearts...even if they think it will hurt
~thankful for diversity and that none are the same and yet we are intertwined
~thankful for personal expression

~thankful for freedom fighters of all kinds
~thankful for those who speak their minds
~thankful for amendment rights

~I am grateful for good health
~I am grateful for a rich life lived
~I am grateful for blessing bestowed

~I am thankful for sister who drove 31/2 hours to come a dine with me
~for friend who send texts of well wishes
~for those who see me

~for music that inspires
~for words that touch the soul
~for Peace beyond measure
~for messages from beyond myself

~for small hands

~for big hands

~for the privilege of soul connections
~for the simplicity of a smile
~the warmth of a hug

~for the vastness of the sky
~the endlessness of the earth
~the glory of Creation, that reminds me everyday of the Love that brought it all to be...

I am thankful for you
I am thankful for me
I am thankful...

Love and Light

10 comments:

Anonymous10 October 2011 at 17:46
so lovely....
happy thanksgiving!!!
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Tea10 October 2011 at 19:24
Happy Thanksgiving, Cat! What wonderful things you are thankful for! Beautiful photos! ♥
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Sammy10 October 2011 at 23:06
And I am thankful for you ♥ Your wisdom, your kindness and your encouragement xx
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Widge10 October 2011 at 23:43
yummy. all of it.
thankyou.
x
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Sophie11 October 2011 at 04:04
Happy Thanksgiving. Love that celebration and after seeing your photos, now I'm really hungry!!
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Tea11 October 2011 at 11:34
I just read your last post at your other site, and wanted to tell you I enjoyed following you there, and I'm looking forard to everything here. The camping photos were beautiful. You guys have some awesome scenery up there. I hope we get to go to Canada someday and see those mountains for ourselves!!
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Rae11 October 2011 at 11:49
This is lovely! :) and gosh...I'm really hungry right now, and those food pictures did absolutely nothing to help that situation. Haha. Looks sooo yummy. I love your list of thanks. So beautiful. I'm thankful for you! :) and you're making me look forward to my American Thanksgiving...
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UmberDove12 October 2011 at 09:48
SALUT!

But truly, BC and I (due to some historical movies we've been watching) have talked SO much about how blessed we are to live in a time and place with freedom of belief! It's outrageous to me that it's such a "new" concept!

Happy Thanks!
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Allisunny S.12 October 2011 at 16:44
Oh , Cat-

that looks so delicious, and the words are so nourishing I feel quite like I was there, too. Congratulations on this beautiful new chapter of life and kudos to your wisdom and gratitude.

Xo
a
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Miriam12 October 2011 at 22:11
I love those foodie glimpse photos. So much to be grateful for. Happy thanksgiving

Miriam
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quotes that resonate...

"The world will know and understand me someday. but if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women." ~George Sands

"I have a new command for you. As I have loved you, so you must love others. "~Jesus

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul...you have a heart." ~C.S. Lewis

"Humankind has not woven the web of Life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. all things are bound together. all things connected." ~Chief Seattle, 1854

If ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known."~ Matthew Arnold

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”~ Buddha

"The world will be saved by the Western woman....Some people will call me a feminist...but we need more effort to promote basic human values-human compassion, human affection. And in that respect, females have more sensitivity for others' pain and suffering." ~Dalai Lama

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." ~Anatole France

Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a feild. I'll meet you there. ~Rumi

"Those who seem to know more truth than you simply reflect the part of you that has forgotten. They are your touchstones to remember." ~Alan Cohen

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another;unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, resent, and the future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations." ~Anais Nin

"Process is more important than outcome. when the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there." ~ Bruce Mau

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Monday, 10 October 2011

Thankful

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