[Oe List ...] Thanksgiving Gratitude

[Marge Philbrook]

Thanks, Marge Philbrook

foxy-rox at juno.com wrote:

>Greetings, Colleagues,
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>Here's a quote from the Lake Woebegon bard, Garrison Keillor, to frame your Thanksgiving celebration:
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>"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."
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>"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."
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>Daily blessings to you all on this Thanksgiving Day and beyond.
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>Grace and peace,
>Roxana
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