Thankful and always Giving.

Don’t get me wrong I’m all for tradition, especially when it is something that benefits not only me but other people as well. But there’s something about every family in America having turkey one day a year that just doesn’t set well with me.

   Perhaps it is about being thankful. That is something I do every day, from the time I wake up in the morning until I close my eyes at night I am constantly finding a way to be thankful.

  Then it’s about giving. That is also something I find myself doing all the time, there cannot be an energy of being thankful without its counterproductive energy of giving.

 But getting back to that Thanksgiving turkey dinner, I can’t find it in me to sit down to a turkey dinner and stuff myself when just last month our government cut the food stamp program from so many hungry families, (maybe even next door to me or you.)    

   So is it the time spent with family and friends? But there are three hundred and sixty five days in a year, surely one of those days can be used to spend time with a family member or friend.

   I will never forget the horrific picture in the Lancaster desert last week of the buried remains of a family that was murdered several years ago and now finally discovered. Is it a tradition to use holiday time in a movie theatre spending money watching a movie where human beings hunt down and kill other human beings?

   There comes a time when you have to look at the bold truth of just what a real tradition is and the roots of why and how  it is celebrated, and in doing so there is much to be thankful for and much more to be given in awakening that truth in us all. 

Patricia Huff author.

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