Debra Emerson

Acorn Awakenings

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” Robert Frost

Be the Gratitude

It was maybe ten years ago now.  It was summertime, and I was in my kitchen at the sink looking out the window at the beauty out back. I suddenly realized I had been in a deep, still, joyous place for most of the day and thought, I should give thanks. 

That thought and the subsequent movement of my mind to express gratitude pulled me outside the inner sanctum. It was that quick, and I lost a few degrees of that deep stillness.  

This brought an epiphany. The space of peace and joy is all.  Everything else like expressing gratitude is simply a tool to bring us there, to bring us back home.

I have lots of tools to bring me there, to bring me home.  For these I give thanks. To name a few, there are family, friends, the beauty of nature, walks outside, the sun on my face, my home, my kitties, the rain on the roof, a good book or movie, a song.

And I give thanks for you.

May you celebrate your many pathways to peace and joy.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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