I’ve been writing a detailed lengthy article about the recent G20 declaration that just came out last week after the meeting in Bali but I decided to shelf it for next week.
Considering this weekend is American Thanksgiving, whatever that means to you, I thought it was more opportune to talk about giving thanks and gratitude.
I don’t want to sing Kumbaya and pretend everything is love and light in the face of the considerable darkness and suffering that is going on in the world today. I want to acknowledge that darkness, but I think it’s important to still be grateful as much as possible and as often as possible for what we have. In fact, darkness is that contrast that makes the light so much brighter. And light always cast a shadow when it shine on us.
With that in mind, I will admit that over the last 2.5, almost 3, years now I have struggled with gratitude at times. I have felt great anger, frustration, and even sorrow. Perhaps these emotions mask my fear, although I don’t feel that fear has really been present for me. At most I have felt concerned. Concern about the future. Concern for my children. Concern for the world that is unfolding before eyes. Okay, so now that I haven’t gotten that out-of-the-way, let’s get into some things to be thankful for.
Why am I even writing this?
Well, first of all, I am grateful for the fact that through these dark times, I have met and interacted with some amazing people.
I am grateful for the community that has sprung up from all over the world coalescing on a vision of something better than what was being shoved in our faces and down our throats - or, to be more accurate, plunged into our arms.
I am grateful that there are others who resonate with me and that I resonate with.
I am grateful that I am not alone in this resistance, but on the contrary, have like-minded people growing in number each and every day.
In fact, I would say that this means I am grateful for even the darkness before me - the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Anthony Fauci, Albert Bourla, Pfizer, Moderna, and all those other forces…
…even Justin Trudeau.
Did I just write that?!? Someone pinch me. Maybe I need to get a toxicology test? Am I high? Has the nanotech invaded my mind?
No, I mean it, but in a particular way.
These agents have been a catalyst in bringing together people with big hearts, deep souls, and independent, free critically thinking minds.
And when we can be grateful for even that, I believe we are more free than ever before.
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.” — Bob Marley
I am grateful for evolution, Nature, God, the universe, or whatever it is that you feel has enabled us to voyage through life in these miraculous bodies with the incredible marvels of our mental faculties, with the capacity to communicate this, and to love.
And with that, I am grateful for my immune system that has evolved through billions of years and allowed me to interact with my environment, and all its diversity, from invaders to synergistic entities, all stimulating a greater resilience.
I am grateful for my mind and to be able to think critically in times where it is so important and seemingly rare.
I am grateful for my heart allowing me to still have love and compassion, even in the face of the storm of heavy emotions that can sometimes bring me down.
I’m grateful for my physical vessel that carries me through this material plane, and does so with fortitude and grace. I am in complete awe that I can wake up each and every day and stand, move, breathe, that my heart beats without command, my lungs fill without thought, and my digestive system processes the food I eat and nourishes every cell in my body.
I am grateful that my physical self can heal. I’m grateful that it can often do so if I just allow it to.
I am grateful for my emotions that make life rich, exciting, challenging, confusing, joyous and so much more.
If we can hold onto gratitude, it is hard to feel anger simultaneously. And if we can hold that gratitude, maybe we can move the world from a place of love, compassion, and a kind equanimity.
Maybe this allows us to navigate these turbulent waters and traverse these precarious caverns, to where there is light ahead.
So on this Thanksgiving, this is my giving to you. This is my thanks to you.
I hope that the community that I have such gratitude to be a part of and connected to, where I feel supported and am motivate to support, will find some resonance in my message.
I hope that if you find resonance with these words it will give you greater gratitude in your life and aid you in transcending the darkness so you may find the light intact and still be yourself.
So let us make every day a little Thanksgiving so it may inoculate us against the potentially corrosive emotions that arise in us and are coaxed forward by those in the world who are disconnected from the heart, who want to dominate and not allow others to walk their own path.
Looking up at the night sky, I see the countless lights of the stars. Each one is one of you telling me I am not alone. As you shine, you give me permission to do the same.
Thank you. Thank you! Thank you!!
This is beautiful, thank you for speaking from the heart and shining your light brother.
I also feel the pain you describe, but standing along side my brothers and sisters that also refused to capitulate and conform in the face of corporate totalitarianism gives me the strength to continue to walk the path so we can make this world a little bit more free and beautiful for the next generation before we leave.
The star system you showed a picture of at the end of your post is very near and dear to my heart. Did you know that many First Nation / Indigenous peoples have creation stories and/or traditions that are closely linked to the Pleiades?
Keep up the great work my friend.