Dear Friends,
Happy Thanksgiving! I send my love to all and appreciate your love and support for me, my family and our community. Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday because it is one we can all celebrate – whether Christian or Moslem, American or African, male or female, gay or straight, our thankfulness is something we have in common because we are the family of God.
| We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the corn, and to her sisters, the beans and squash, which give us life. We return thanks to the bushes and trees, which provide us with fruit. We return thanks to the wind, which, moving the air, has banished diseases. We return thanks to the moon and the stars, which have given us their light when the sun was gone. We return thanks to our grandfather He-no, who has given to us his rain. We return thanks to the sun, that he has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye. Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit, in who is embodied all goodness, and who directs all things for the good of his children. An Iroquois [Confederacy] Prayer (from the 1800s) |
Thanksgiving is not only a time to thank our creator for all we have been given. It is also a time to show our thanks by working to make our world a better place in which to live. Someone once said, “We human beings are quick to say, “Why me?” whenever something bad happens to us, but we rarely ask the same question when good fortune befalls us.” In a world that is full of constant chaos we are thankful for the constant force of God’s love. St. Paul said, “Nothing can separate us from the love of God.”
Peace and Thanks,
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Oh, Heavenly Father, we thank thee for food and remember the hungry.
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