Thursday, October 13, 2005
Thanksgiving, for sure!
There is so much in life to be grateful for. I had planned to write a long entry on Thanksgiving, maybe include parts of my Thanksgiving sermon. But now I'm too tired after fighting with my computer all day. The long and the short of Thanksgiving for me was that I was giving food by my congregation. Like enough to cover my entire kitchen table. It was amazing - almost a whole trunk full of fresh veggies and preserves and eggs.
I'll leave you with a poem of thanksgiving by e.e.cummings.
i thank you God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any - lifted from the no
of all nothing - human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
