[Oe List ...] Thanksgiving Gratitude

[George Packard]

Roxana,
I just ran across this, while looking for an address. I must have missed it
at thanksgiving, but it was found today and I thank you for taking time to
put in on. An while I am at it thanks for making your husband so available
for these past years, and keeping that sentinel congregation in Seattle
going, and  for having a great daughter whose life I could share with in her
transitions.
George

-----Original Message-----
From: OE-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:OE-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf
Of Marge Philbrook
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 7:30 AM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Thanksgiving Gratitude

Thanks, Marge Philbrook

foxy-rox at juno.com wrote:

>Greetings, Colleagues,
>
>Here's a quote from the Lake Woebegon bard, Garrison Keillor, to frame your
Thanksgiving celebration:
>
>"Gratitude is where the spiritual life begins.  Thank you, Lord, for this
amazing and bountiful life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Thank you for this laptop computer and for this yellow kitchen table and for
the clock on the wall and the cup of coffee and the glasses on my nose and
for these black slacks and this black T-shirt.  Thanks for black, and for
other colors.  Thank you, Lord for giving me the wherewithal not to fix a
half-pound cheeseburger right now and to eat a stalk of celery instead.
Thank you for the wonderful son and the amazing little daughter and the
smart sexy wife and the grandkids.  Thank you that I haven't had alcohol in
lo! these many days and thank you that it isn't a big struggle to do
without, as I had feared it might be.  Thank you for the odd delight of
being 60, part of which is the sheer relief of not being 50."
>
>"I could go on and on and on.  One should enumerate one's blessing and set
them before the Lord.  Begin every day with this exercise.  List your
blessings and you will walk through those gates of thanksgiving and into the
fields of joy.  It is to break through the thin membrane of sourness and
sullenness -- though we should be thankful for that too, it being the source
of so much wit and humor -- and to come into the light and enjoy our
essential robustness and good health."
>
>Daily blessings to you all on this Thanksgiving Day and beyond.
>
>Grace and peace,
>Roxana
>
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