Thanksgiving Exercise

 

Dear Friends

Happy Thanksgiving Day! I just want to share a prayer by Avery Brooke and suggest an exercise to do alone, or with a group, today, or any day.

We have many things to be thankful for God,

and sometimes we remember them and other times we forget.

When something large or small goes wrong, it fills our minds,

and we forget those things for which---when we remember---

we are thankful.

Help us to remember the good things, God.

To name them, to savor them, and be thankful for you. Amen.

So how about using this prayer to take some time and write down the specific things in a word or phrase, that come to mind when we consider the five senses we have been given:

Tastes

Sounds

Smells

Sights

Touches

And finally, as the cartoon which appeared today on my turn a page calendar, quoting Ephesians 1:16 says, today I am giving thanks for you!

John