Thanks is powerful medicine. It is another
word for gratitude. Gratitude is another word for love. You
hold high in your life and deep in your heart what you are grateful
for. It is the source of warmth for you when you are cold and the
source of light for you when you are in darkness. Thanks, gratitude,
and love come from the heart.
Are you thankful
that another was injured instead of you? That is an experience of
fear. Are you thankful that you were injured instead of
another? That is an experience of love. Ralph Waldo
Emerson wrote, “Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat
him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his
neighbor. Then…he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of
the sun.”
Thanks and
gratitude look different from a market-cart than they do from a chariot of
the sun. From a chariot of the sun you are grateful for the opportunity to
walk upon the Earth with others, to contribute to others, and to
contribute to Life. When you are grateful for Life – not this
part of Life or that part of Life, but Life and all that It brings you, you
are riding in your chariot. When you are grateful for Life when It
brings you joy but not when It brings you pain; when you get what you want
but not when you don’t, you are riding in your market-cart.
When you trade
your cart for your chariot, every day, every moment, is Thanks
Giving.
Love,
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