THE SPIRIT OF "THANKS"

Thank God for Nature. Thank you for the beautiful blue sky. Thank you for the ocean and all that’s in it—the things that provide life for us. Thank you for the land and all the things that grow—that provide life for us, and the air.

Thank you God for my wife and my family who care about me and give me strength. Thank you for my friends who stand by me and have been such trusted teachers and guides. Thank you for my parents who tried their best. To all the teachers I had in school.

Thanks for my country, the place where I live that provides me with so much. And to my town and I even thank my house for keeping the cold and the rain out.

Thank you, God, for giving me the spirit of "Thanks" and for learning how to give something back.

Thank you God, for my creative energy—the energy to write, to paint, to document what I see. I believe somehow that whatever I have to give back to the world comes from this creative energy. I thank you for this—for making me and keeping me as a channel. I know that whatever I write that is good and true is good and true because it comes from You and the better it is, the more perfect a reflection it is of Your Divine Grace.

I am filled to overflowing with Your Love, Dear God, in all its different guises and iterations. I mean, when I’m feeling REAL, as I am right now, I know it is because I am connected to My Higher Power.

Thanks for this.

Thanks, God, for everything.