Let us begin again… This time a reminder, for this day, and all of the rest of your days to come: say your grace. Say it before every meal, especially the Thanksgiving dinner, and be sure to start with the gratitude of even having a meal to sit down to. So very many people do not have any meal to sit down to, especially these days, with politics and prices making it difficult to afford much to eat.
Say thanks to the people who nurture and gather the food, their numbers dwindling quickly due to “immigration” raids. These people do the dirty work that the rest of us refuse to do – long, backbreaking days in every sort of weather.
Say thanks to the people who then process and deliver the food to your location, and say thanks to the grocer who receives and stocks this food, and to the grocery employees who help you find and purchase the food.
Say thanks to those with whom you share the food – whether you prepare it for them or they prepare it for you. Take their hands as you sit around the table, a circle of loved ones who take the time to share their gratitude, and their grace..
And finally, say thanks to yourself for hanging in there, or for thriving, or for surviving the vast spaces in between. All you have to do is walk by that man on the street corner with only a backpack and a cup of coffee, the man who apologizes to you for yelling at the unending sky, and you know, by that by some other form of grace, that could be you.
Say your grace for that man as well, and if you can, share part of your food with him, this Thanksgiving and every other day.
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