Weekly Inspirational Message from November 22, 2009
(coming to and through Susi)

As the national day of Thanksgiving approaches for Americans, consider taking the time to truly count your blessings – the blessings of life, of love, of opportunity, of safety, of sustenance, of friendship, of beauty, of health, of possibility (no matter what is appears to be happening or not happening at this moment), of the breath that few of you have cause to doubt will fill your lungs.  If you enter such a space, recalling all that has been given to you on the journey of human life (including a body which functions quite wondrously for most in spite of less than optimal care-taking), a sense of gratitude will be born that can fill your being with an energy that heals as well as cultivates new fields of promise.  Gratitude, like love, is often underestimated, under-appreciated and under-harnessed as a powerful grace in your material world.

Allow yourself to find reasons and thus moment of gratitude throughout your day.  Give heartfelt thanks for the gifts that are ever present, if often unnoticed, as humans live so much at the mercy of the lure of future desire.  Know that your appreciation of what is holds the power to turn the future into the now.  For as so many of your wise teachers proclaim – now is the only moment you have, the only one that is real and the only one that can be altered, changing subsequent moments.

During this time of massive change and upheaval (it is the upgrading of the entire collective human consciousness), gratitude is a grace that can be used to interrupt the powerful flow of fear and want flooding the planet.  Every day, find and acknowledge those obvious and not so obvious gifts that honor, ease, support and/or celebrate the human journey.  And on the national holiday when millions of people of will traditionally embark on some level of thanksgiving, take time out from your family gatherings and meal preparations to make a list of all things for which to be truly grateful.  You might be quite surprised how long it actually is. It will change something in your heart.  Then perhaps introduce a new gratitude ritual at your Thanksgiving table, where every person present expresses an authentic heartfelt sharing of gratitude for something.  You could make a rule that no one is allowed to repeat what has already been shared.  Someone could write them all down and send out a copy to each participant to highlight how rich your lives already are as you enter the sacred winter holiday season.  It is perhaps, just a drop in the bucket of a needy, forgetful world.  But one drop can send out large ripples that can intersect with other such ripples that extend out into a harness-able matrix of loving possibility and remembrance for the human family.  Blessings, dear humans, blessings of remembering the magnificent and potent beings you truly are (and always have and will be).

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