Thanksgiving Day

Excerpt from Daily Cures, Wisdom for Healthy Aging by Connie Mason Michaelis

Thanksgiving Day is a great reminder that we have so many blessings in our life.  But the truth is that we ought to be practicing thanksgiving every day of the year!  Maybe it would be better to celebrate Unthankful Day once a year.  Everyone could have permission to whine and complain for a whole day and eat day-old cold pizza; the rest of the year, we could practice thanksgiving!  Dear Abby printed a column annually called Just For Today.  I’ve condensed it here as a reminder.

Just for today, I will live through this day only and not tackle all my problems at once.  Just for today, I will be happy; as Abraham Lincoln said, “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”  Just for today, I will adjust myself to what is and not try to adjust everything to my own desires.  Just for today, I will strengthen my mind.  I will study and learn something useful.  Just for today, I will exercise my soul in three ways; I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out, and if anybody knows, it w

on’t count.  Just for today, I will be agreeable.  I will dress becomingly, keep my voice low, be courteous, and not be critical. Just for today, I will save myself from two pests: hurry and indecision.  Just for today, I will have a quiet half-hour all by myself.  I will focus on a better perspective.  Just for today, I will be unafraid. I will enjoy what is beautiful and trust that what I give to the world, the world will give back to me.

 A prayer for today; Lord make me an instrument of Thy peace.  Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy.