If you traveled this holiday, be thankful you arrived…hopefully you’ll have a safe return.  If you managed to eat and drink in moderation, be thankful for that–many people fail miserably.  If you were constantly thinking of bargain sales all this week, you should get a life–that’s not in the spirit of this holiday.

The Thanksgiving holiday is just that…a day of thanks.  You might be an immigrant mother and father living in fear that ICE will come knocking at your door.  You might be homeless and/or hungry.  You might be a poor soldier eating his or her MRE, wondering if a bullet or IED will be your Christmas gift this year.  You might be a single mother working two shifts and another job on weekends but still wondering who’s going to play Santa to your kids.  You might be a patient in a hospice with stage four cancer.

All I can say is that there’s always someone worse off than you.  That’s why everyone of us has something to be thankful for.  You can rest assured that your situation could be a lot worse.

So, celebrate the holiday today, even if you have only a few small things to be thankful for.  That’s what this holiday is about.

Above all, be thankful that you’re still alive.  Just being alive is the greatest adventure one can have in this Universe.  Our time on Earth is all too finite, but it’s our time.  Live it to the fullest you can…and be thankful you had the opportunity.

[Regular blog posts will resume next Tuesday.]

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