Thanksgiving Taking the Time to Give thanks
Thank you, GOD! Thank you, everyone! Thank you for all of the wonderful blessings which you have bestowed upon me and everyone else, throughout our lives. I am humble and grateful. Your graciousness has made the world a much more marvelous place within which to live than it could have, otherwise, been.
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven. Please, grant us wisdom, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, lead us HOME in your perfect way, and deliver us, all, from all of that which is evil, for Thine is the Kingdom, and Thine is the Power, and Thine is the Glory, forever. Amen.
Now, that I have, first, taken the time to thank everyone, I have the RIGHT to write about TAKING TIME to give thanks.
Thanks Giving:
The above prayer is the Jewish Kadish, albeit reworded, with the portion about forgiveness added. Christians have named it The Lord's Prayer, although my favorite version (above) is somewhat reworded, as well. The Jewish Rabbi Jesus, of Nazareth, taught the people an ancient version of the Jewish Kadish. According to The Holy Bible, when Jesus taught the people to pray The Lord's Prayer, he said, "In this MANNER pray ye", affording us the ability to use his version of The Lord's Prayer as a guideline for prayer, in general. This is in perfect keeping with the ancient Jewish edict that the perfect prayer contains all eight elements of life, including gratitude and contrition. In fact, each of the world's major religions is founded upon some version of The Lord's Prayer.
The beauty of The Lord's Prayer (Kadish, Brahmann, Zen, et alii) is that, because it contains all of the basic elements of life, it miraculously heals life, itself, beginning from the moment of prayer, by the inviolate power of the mathematically precise Law of Cause and Effect (of that which goes around, either, it or it's equivalent comes around; "that which ye sow, also shall ye reap", et al).
Time:
Giving thanks, first and foremost, is the perfect use of time, for it is fully-grounded in reality. No one was born in a vacuum. Each of our accomplishments, on Earth, is the result of the decisions of more than one person. If we lose sight of this fact, we are not being realistic.
Even if we are born to be immortal, time is one of our most precious commodities speeding by so quickly that, all too often, it can be too easily, squandered. Yet, peaceful time is life for each of us, as well, and we dare not waste even one second. To do so is disrespectful of the blessing of our time alive. Such devotion to not wasting our precious lives and resources requires some concentration. Yet, the time needed for such concentration is time well-invested. And being CONSTANTLY THANKFUL is the wisest use of one's time. THIS is taking the time to give thanks.
