thank you for being

Let us be of one mind that we may do this properly.

We give thanks for our Clan Ancestors.

Thanksgiving family feast, Edgewater NJ, 2021

And the Great Mystery, told us this:

I shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where

those on the earth will end their thanksgiving.

I shall always be listening carefully to what the people are saying and

shall always be watching carefully what they do.

They will begin on the earth, giving thanks for all that they see.

They will carry that gratitude upward, ending where I dwell.

Thanksgiving family feast, Negros Island PI, 2021

We want to live well to earn that right.

Let us be of one mind that we may do this properly.  

We give thanks for the one who gives us our lives, the Great Mystery.

[At this time express gratitude for other aspects of your life.]

Thanksgiving friends feast, London UK, 2021

Closing: 

         May our grief be lifted,

         Our hearts be open,

         Our stomach be full,

         Our bones be braced,

         And our will be calmed. 

                It is spoken, it is beautiful.

*part of a 500 year old Seneca thanksgiving prayer

from our hearths & hearts around the world to yours