Happy Thanksgiving!

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

• We are truly grateful for all of the friends and family we have (or have had) in our lives. Each person has made an impression...whether it be great or small. We love you all and thank you for being a part of our journey on earth!
• We are grateful for our health.
• We are grateful for our home and vehicles (even if they are falling apart!)
• We are grateful to live in a country where we don't have to worry about: having enough to eat, finding drinkable water, genocide, rampant disease, being able to speak our minds, not being able to vote, education for our children, being bombed or shot at on a daily basis, our child being taken from us and turned into a slave or brainwashed soldier, and wondering whether or not we will live to see tomorrow.
• We are grateful for change and transformation, awareness and consciousness; because without it our minds would be closed minded and life would become stagnant.
• We are grateful for the gift of Life every day.

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~ John F. Kennedy

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." ~ Henry Ward Beecher

"Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." ~ Denis Waitley

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." ~ Buddha

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." ~ Melodie Beattie

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!