Happy Thanksgiving from Coteau Valley Farm in South Dakota! So here we find ourselves, it's Thanksgiving! This is the time of the year where many lives come together to revist the past and share in the future, to catch up quickly, by slowing down. I find it charming that the Thanksgiving holiday basically marks the beginning of the beautiful season of Advent. The time of the year when we start a journey, a journey where the path begins with waiting for a wonderful event! Time to kick back and silence the commotion in our lives and take a fresh new look at our families and our friends. The time to refocus on our lives, who we are, and where we ulitimately wanna be someday! It's also a great day to eat, and laugh, and sometimes even cry. Perhaps some of us will have to learn to get along with others, folks that we may find hard to get a long with, or who challenge our being. This year I want to have a startup exercise, like a stretch, something that helps me forget about past greivances and remember the joys of fresh beginnings, and the possibility of new futures. This day can give us a chance to have a certain sort of victory over yesterday, to let go of it, to say goodbye, and begin again. I like Thanksgiving. I think that just the idea of being greatful is a very healing mindset, it puts life in perspective and reminds us that everything is a gift, good or bad. I hope to find something about someone today that I can reflect on and honestly say, thank you. I also hope to realize plainly all the gifts I already have in my life. I guess ulitmately, for all of us, the thank you's we proclaim should be sent to, and received by, God. However, we can also look at each other and find something nice to say or to do for each another. I think there is a certain reward, if not a victory, in doing good for someone on Thanksgiving Day or any day of the year, for that matter. We all can find real achievement in showing kindness and love by extending a loving welcome to those who may or may not deserve our welcome! Here is my little secret, you deserve to be kind to everyone! Treat yourself this Thanksgiving, to the joy of the new waiting game, wait to do..., unless it is to do, a kindness. Take the time to focus on the prize of what real joy can be for us, just wait! Enjoy being kind to one another, enjoy smiling, and laughing, and eating, and saying, thank you! Thank you to each other, but foremost to God. Give to yourself the joy that only a truly thankful heart offers. This joy is offered to everyone, its free, for anyone who is willing to wait, wait to do nothing else, but accept and show true kindness! I know I am truly greatful to be here on Coteau Valley Farm, enjoying the sunshine and the many gifts God has poured into my life over the past year. Happy Thanksgiving.
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