Each day Thanksgiving.

Last Thursday, the 17th of November, I walked into HomeGoods at 11 in the morning and it was mobbed. Not an empty cart to be  found, flooded with buyers, 99% women, handling items, dreading choice, choosing Xmas items, blissing out at new purchases, way too many people for even the infamous Friday after Thanksgiving.......hardly fitting for mid November and not even a sale. I stopped upon entering and glanced to my left as I was too starstruck at the mad house to fully enter the vortex of shoppers before me. I addressed a clerk whose  hands  were knee deep in dishware from Italy....what day is it?   -  why? its Thursday.   - How come there are so many people here?   - we have too much stock, we have way too much stock..(to the rhythm of; off with their heads, off with their heads)....she replied  to me as she knelt to the floor, then stood up and moved items with arms she did not have. I thought I was in a SNL skit.

This past Monday, the 21st, yes, the Monday before Thanksgiving, I entered the grocery store...............jammed packed, like a snow storm was coming. I have to admit, like a bad B sci fi movie, I thought; where do they all come from on a Monday? Men were pushing carts, women were going from one food item to another, back to the cart, looking at the list, arguing with the man on what was necessary and what was not.......retracing her steps to the food item she was just at for an additional one. Courageous lone shoppers looked be-fuddledly dazed as they maneuvered the too thin aisles and the overwhelming choices.

 As a women of God, a member of the clergy; I write before you to admit my inner conflict about 'these' holidays. Maybe blogs are nothing more a than a public confessional?  I awoke this morning with this conflict on my mind, listening to my heart.......really, I loose sleep about this. What I heard was, how would lives be different if every day we seek out of way to give to  another human?

How would YOUR life be different if every day a loved one went out of their way to prepare for you a delicious meal? How would your life be different if once a week you found a way to 'give' to a worthy cause, to tithe of your heart, to write a check to a food pantry? How would your life be different if every day you awoke with the intention; today I will unconditionally give to another human being?  How would your life be different if every day you found a way to offer to another human being a gift - a touch, a smile, a hug, a conversation, a thoughtful observation, a thank you, homemade soup or a compliment? How would your heart shift?

My personal Re-Frame it about the holidays has always been that the majority of humans never stop long enough to give unconditionally and the concept of a public holiday such as Thanksgiving and Christmas somehow forces them to show up weather they like it or not. That is the blessing in the over the top commercialism which materialism  and exterior motivations has done to redefine such holidays. My human observation is most do not like it as well as most appreciate it. 

As I grow older, as it seems by years gone by, all of us feel differently about the holidays than we did before. Especially right now. Life is different. Energetically we are no longer material, linear, exterior beings - we are vibrational beings with open hearts, journeying from the interior;  and anything which does not align with that open heart will find a way to stop you in your path - give you a spiritual 2 x 4 along side your beautiful head.

Since this is the time of Thanksgiving, I thank you. I love what I do with this life I have been given. Every now and then I am given the gift of witnessing goodness, Light, Love and awareness come through another human being. When I am witness to others giving to others with an open heart and absolutely no other intention; my own heart and soul sing. You all give me that opportunity. Day after day, phone call after phone call, class to class, session to session, service to service.  

Thank you for seeking inner peace; alignment with our Cosmic Oneness. May you each have moments of  this season of  which bring joy to your heart and more than that; may you each commit to making every single day an opportunity to love yourself, another being, be kind, and in doing so, find more of yourself as the Light of God.