Thanksgiving

Just a few hours ago, Thanksgiving 2009 ended on the East Coast of the United States. I cooked a turkey breast and made dinner and was thankful I was able to facilitate my wife resting today.

I received and sent text messages to friends and I was thankful that I have friends that I am willing to text. This sounds simple but the idea that I would be bothering them and they would not want to hear from me has a strong hold with me.

I am thankful for blogging. For some reason, despite my desire to guard myself, writing my innermost feelings and putting them on the web makes me feel good. Go figure. I call it the boiling over effect. When you try to contain yourself all the time, at some point one of the walls will break.

I am thankful for the people with whom I work. I work with some talented and caring people who want to do a good job and want to find a balance in their lives.

I have been blessed to befriend some people that I truly love over the years. I do not give hugs very often but if looks could hug then I would forever be in someone's embrace.

I am thankful for family that take my call even when I have not called in a while.

I am thankful for the Sandra's of the world.

There are people who 'get' or 'got' me; there are people who did not 'get me' but accept me; and there are people who just love me. The saying goes "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all". I agree with that. My question to neighbor Jesus is why is it so hard to tell someone you love them? Why is it so confusing to love someone? Why is it that when we talk about love many times we are only talking about romantic love? Romantic love is not even singular love but a faceted love yet we talk about it like we all experience it the same way. We talk about falling out of and in love but I do not think I have ever really fallen out of love. My love changes but at a core level I still love all the people I have loved.

I am thankful for hard times and good times because hard times and remembering them make the good times something to cherish all the more.

I am thankful for introspection and inquisitiveness. I am both introspective and inquisitive why not be happy about it.

I am thankful for laughter. I love laughter and I love watching people laugh.

I am thankful for everything I forgot to be thankful for in this post.