For me, the Thanksgiving Day is one of the most beautiful American holidays. My first Thanksgiving was last year, and I was still crawling in my process of adaptation to the American habits. But, from this year on, the day definitely joined my personal calendar: my child will be born by this time. It's very close now, and naturally I am flooded in anxiety. The sincronicity about my baby's birth is sort of curious. First, the name we've chosen for her: Isobel, which means "consecrated to God". Second, the sign: little Isobel probably will be born under a Sagittarius Sun or Moon, which is a sign related to the religious things, ruled by Jupiter, the father of gods. Of course we had no idea about that, it was pure coincidence. Or, better saying, pure sincronicity.
I'll have much to thank for in this Thanksgiving Day.
In fact, I've been always more a thankful than an "askful" person. And since a long time I've learned to recognize how much I have to thank for, although in life we're always in need of something else... And I also recognize my selfishness for feeling miserable due to little things. There was a time I was really involved with assistance jobs to the ones in need, a straight (and rich) contact with the deprivation of the minimum, which helped me to open my eyes to the fact that we all have, always and everyday, reasons to be thankful.
And that it be clear: giving thanks to everything does not mean a sterile resignation. My opinion is that we deserve always the best, when "best" means a fair thing. But not having the best does not mean we can't feel privileged, mainly because there will always be somebody to whom things will be always a bit more tough.
It's important to thank even for the bad paid job, when there's so many living with no perspectives of an income, as low as it be.
To thank for the bad meal, when many ones haven't even the basic to survive.
To thank for our children laughter.
To thank for the sunny day.
To thank, specially, for being able to thank for.
"In everything give thanks"
1 Thessalonians 5:18
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