Thanksgiving Morning – 2014

Thanksgiving Wishes 2014

Early Thanksgiving morning and I’m working the Graveyard Shift. Today is the day when we reflect on what is important to each of us. Later this afternoon millions of families will sit down at the table and give thanks for what they have. As you are reflecting, ask your self, what is it in your life that is important.

The easy answer is always family and friends, the butcher at the market place that puts aside just the right cut of meat for your Sunday dinners, your teachers, your workmates, and the lady down the street that takes it upon herself to deliver hot meals to the shelter, even though she may be 80 years old and in need for herself. Thanksgiving day is a day to reflect, it is the other 364 days of the year that is the day to do.

Rather than ask what are you thankful for, I think a better question is “who’s life did you make a difference in.” The world today is what we brought upon it. I am a self proclaimed child of the 60s, and we were going to change the world. I’m not sure it worked out the way we thought it would. Somewhere along the way life and just living got in the way with what we were hoping to do. We, as children of the 60s, forgot that the world does not change with big events, we change the world one act, one person, one event at a time.

Perhaps the events of this past week would not have occurred if things actually worked out the way we dreamed it would. Martin Luther “had a dream”, JFK believed in “Camelot”, Dr Seuss told the story about “The Lorax” and Prince Ea tells us “the world is coming to an end.” Our historical philosophers and those that we embrace today simply provide us with the words and thoughts to get each of us to think differently, and ultimately to act differently if we take the time and trouble to actually think and act differently. We all want a better world for those that come after us, I know I do. If you stuck with my words and did not bail when you read about the corner butcher then we are all doing something right. Like I said in the beginning, early Thanksgiving morning.