Thankful, 2016

It has been hard to even know where to begin this month, this fall. Looking back, the whole year seems marked by difficult decisions, and the living-out of them. Good things have come, and there is much to be thankful for, although I cannot pretend there has been a lot of easy recently. 

But yes, I am thankful. 

Thankful for the truth spoken out, no matter how loudly or quietly, no matter how many hear.

Thankful for every act of kindness, no matter how large or small, no matter how many see.

Thankful for every human connection, no matter how tenuous, and for the glimpses of that web around us. Oh, when it catches the light.

Thankful for the beauty I have seen and read and heard all year, and for the generosity behind it. 

Thankful for the infinite Goodness holding it all together, no matter what else.

My hope is that this year our thanksgiving--yours, mine, everyone's--may be both fierce and humble. May it reach far beyond our own homes, and far beyond this day.

For more thankfulness, please visit my archive. It all still holds.

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Thankful, 11/30/15:

For fancy cake on a Monday night. For quiet celebrations. 

For all the beautiful stuff that catches and holds.

Thankful, 11/29/15:

For laughter, driving home. For the light.

Thankful, 11/28/15:

For the new. For the chance to explore. For the stretching of mind and heart.

Thankful, 11/27/15:

For the intersection, the overlap, the edge. For what lingers.

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Thankful, 11/26/15:

For the fact that despite the imperfections, the messiness, the heartbreak, there is beauty here in this world. And love. And light. And always more to see, maybe, and always more to find.

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Thankful, 11/25/15:

For sky, for fields, for murmurations. For when we finally relaxed and enjoyed.

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Thankful, 11/24/15:

For every kind of window I find. For chances to see out. For chances to see in. 

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Thankful, 11/23/15:

For the feathers I keep finding, gathered off the floor on the final night of the musical and brought home as treasure. For the things that find their way in. 

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Thankful, 11/22/15:

For a quiet night. For time together.

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Thankful, 11/21/15:

For laughing together.

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Thankful, 11/20/15:

For every crack in every heart. 

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Thankful, 11/19/15:

(high school musical edition) 

For the moment before the curtain rises. For the continual awe of parenthood.

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Thankful, 11/18/15:

For how the warmth seeps in. For the silence at the end of the day.

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Thankful, 11/17/15:

For getting to see it in a different light. For how beautiful that can be.

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Thankful, 11/16/15:

For reminders.

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Thankful, 11/15/15:

For flowers that bloom while everything else is dying. For the sometimes-gift of feeling out of step with the world around you.





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Thankful, 11/14/15:

For laughter. Because of, in spite of, alongside.

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Thankful, 11/13/15:

For when words fail but you still have a voice.

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Thankful, 11/12/15:

For the possibility of looking at just the right moment.

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