Simple things.
14 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
Today I feel happy to be able to give my children the things they want for their birthday – yes, I said want – not need. I say this with the understanding that I really do know what a privileged – not perfect, not superior, not better, but privileged - life we lead. I am also glad that I often find myself wishing we didn’t want any of this stuff that I see around me, because I do know that it is so completely unnecessary for a happy life and peaceful existence. But, through a twist of fate, here I sit at a computer in a beautiful home, in a safe, quiet community, in a peaceful country, with a loving family – and we are healthy and indeed have everything we could ever need. We have access to health care and sealed roads and reliable cars and an abundance of food and a law-abiding population, for the most part. This doesn’t escape my attention, and I am grateful for it everyday. I am grateful that I am here, I am safe, I am loved, I am needed and I can even buy gifts for my children if I want to. These are the privileges of living where I do. I give thanks for it and hope that every day that I do have it, I say thank you, somehow. Like today. Like now. Thank you.
Just thanks.
07 Nov 2010 2 Comments
Thanks for best friends – the lifelong kind – the ones that can tell you anything and are happy to hear the same from you. Thank you for the things we do not understand but are happy to embrace as real and significant parts of our growth. Thank you for different people; light-workers, the gifted, the off-beat and all-round amazing – the people who share themselves so that we can make sense of our own little world. Thank you for the signs, the messages, the reminders, the mysteries that make us think twice about what we have believed until now. Thank you for the time to say thank you, no matter how briefly.
