Be A Thanksgiver!

Portions taken from "Heaven's Letters"

 

Whatever occurs,
you swim in this pond of life.
You have this opportunity
to experience life.
This is an amazing thing.
What a gift
you have been given.
Thank God you have life.
If life has you in a whirl,
thank God
you can experience
what it is to be a-twirl in life.
And if you are penned in a corner,
thank God you can experience
what it is
to be penned in a corner.
You are experiencing life,
beloveds.
The whole carpet of life
has been rolled out for you.
Walk on it.
Don’t be timid.
This is life.

Consider life
a block of ice that you chip at.

Consider life a many-layered cake
made of many flavors and colors.
Lick your plate clean.

Consider life pick-up sticks.

Consider life a skein of yarn
for you to disentangle.
No explanations are needed.
As you disentangle a ball of yarn,
you disentangle a ball of your life on Earth..
You don’t have to know
how you are going to do it.
You just do it.

Consider that you are an explorer
in life.
Delve into it.
Pull out a plum.
Run up and down hill and dale.

Do not say you didn’t ask for life.
You asked for it.
You begged for the opportunity.
No longer may you think of life as a burden.
It is great blessing given to you.
A great ball of Earth
was thrown to you at your behest,
and you have to catch it.
Don’t balk at it.
Life is quite a natural thing.

The Earth is in your hands, beloveds.
It is yours to bounce.
It is yours to share.
It is always yours to catch.
Catch life on the fly.

He invested in you.
He gave you everything.
Now it is your turn.
What will you do
with everything given to you?
He gave you mountains and dales.
He gave you legs
to climb up and down.
He gave you a fertile mind
and limber limbs
to climb those mountains.
One step at a time,
you climb them.
Or perhaps you ride up them.
Or perhaps you fall down them.
No matter.
Pick yourself up and keep going.

 

You are a decorator on Earth.

You are a disseminator.

You are a propagator.

You are a proponent of life.

You are a giver of life.

And so be a thanksgiver.