A Reading for Our Life (Thanksgiving 2011)
We are joyous in this allowance of knowing that percolates into our state of living. We remember and we surrender to the indelible images we preserve in our experience. We are thankful for the opportunity to observe this process and live in a state of gratitude and forgiveness.
These are words of recognition. Each human lives within an envelope of Consciousness. Each life experience is an illusory figment of the vast and intensely creative Imagination that manifests within this Consciousness. The details of those experiences are the stuff of invention at the level of Universal Creation. Each element is fabricated to fulfill what might be called the “needs” of the essential Consciousness. Further, these elements are meticulously interconnected in cosmic webs of relationships at all levels of existence. Through the interaction of all that is within experience, the Consciousness is complete and in harmony.
We reach a point in each solar cycle when we force ourselves to look back and acknowledge what has “worked” and what has not. Of course, all possibilities are always perfect and exactly what the Consciousness intended. Yet, we of the temporal and existential realm, measure ourselves by what we see in our experience. So, we delve into what brought us to what we see before us. We can simply accept what has unfolded and bask in the beauty and fecundity of what was wrought. Or, we can immerse ourselves in a critical evaluation of the flows and results and inflict various forms of pain on our waiting individuality. Thanksgiving structures this review through the cornucopia of abundance that is exemplified by the food and drink that we create within our bubble. At the core of this day is a demonstration of family, relationship and gratefulness. We have the opportunity to share together our optimism and positive feelings to bring everyone to a higher level of self-awareness. We are granted (by ourselves) the right to bask in the clarity and purposefulness of who we are and what we have manifested within our realm. Through our expressions of gratitude we enliven ourselves and all that surrounds us.
We have intended and created this that we are. We have focused our attention on the details and nurturingly tuned the relationships. Now it is time to bless all that we share with each other and within ourselves. Now is the moment to be Gratitude, an influence of positivism and high spirit spread across this Universe and all Universes – the brilliant luminescence of the Consciousness.
So Be It.