Day Twenty-Eight

Today, I have a constant craving for mashed sweet potato casserole with marshmallows on top. Bring. It. On. 

I’m sure you have your own cravings that pop up around the holidays. Craving and abundance are two sides of the same coin. We tend to want more, yet when we stop feeding the craving, we realize what we need is already within and around us.  As k.d. lang sings: “even through the darkest phase... always someone marches brave, here beneath my skin.”

Each Sunday at WellSprings, we say “there is nowhere else to go, there is nowhere else to be, so let’s be here together, now.” For our Thanksgiving Day practice I invite you to share this simple grace around your table at mealtime.

We are grateful for this day, the only one we have. 
We are grateful for this moment, which is always, always new.
We are grateful for this place where we gather, its shelter and its hospitality.
We are grateful for the precious time we have, with the ones with whom we sit.
We sit together now to share in this moment, and to realize its deepest blessings.

From me to you, please enjoy your sweet potato casserole – or its equivalent! – on this great day of presence and rest.

 

- Lee