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Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, and it’s here once again. My heart is full to overflowing this year, and I want so much to express how thankful I am for everything in my life.

I had a very good year this year. I am healthy and happy and so is my family. My business has taken off–OK let me stop because I could go on and on. I am grateful to be in the abundant flow of the Universe, and I am grateful to be in a position where I can share what I have learned with others.

At the moment I am sitting in my mother’s house getting ready to go and celebrate Thanksgiving with my family tomorrow. Every other year my mom’s family gathers in Massachusetts and we hire a hall and do a big, communal Thanksgiving celebration. There will be over 50 people in attendance. I’m looking forward to meeting my newest baby cousin who was born in October, and I’ll be wishing my grandmother a happy 92nd birthday with one of my special chocolate cakes.

For all of my readers, I wish you a happy, safe and blessed Thanksgiving. Counting your blessings makes you have more blessings to count. Please enjoy this video that I made tonight:

One of the cool things about participating in social media is that you can find lots of cool resources from the friends that you make online. I’ve been using utterli.com, a social media/networking site that’s sort of like twitter, but with audio. Through that site I met the fabulous domesticdiva, who uses viddler.com to do a vlog, or video blog. I signed up and posted my first video there. It’s about Thanksgiving being my favorite holiday. Please enjoy and have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

Given the fact that today is the first day of November, the month in which we celebrate Thanksgiving, I have been thinking a lot lately about gratitude. Lately it seems that the world’s descent towards hell in a hand-basket has been at a more break-neck speed. But with all of the swirling chaos around me, I still feel incredibly blessed. I don’t know what tomorrow will bring, but I know where my sanity, my safety, and my salvation come from and that has not changed nor will it ever change. I am confident that the way things are is the way things are supposed to be. I know that God holds my future and that He has a broad view of everything, while I can only see what’s immediately in front of me at this moment. I must move forward and trust that He will guide me and keep me safe. And I must express my gratitude for all that He has given me.

Thank you might be two of the most powerful words that we can speak–maybe aside from the words, I’m sorry. So, even when times seem difficult, and we can’t see how things will work out, we can say thank you for what we have already in our hands. We can say thank you for our next breath. We can say thank you to the one whose hands prepared the meal we just enjoyed, and we can say thank you to those who labor on our bahalf to defend the freedom we so casually enjoy and take for granted.

My goal this month is to find a way to outwardly express my gratitude and to give back in an effort to ‘pay forward’ some of the blessing that have been bestowed in my life. Everything moves in cycles. Sometimes you’re the windshield and sometimes you’re the bug, as they say. So, I will find a way to use my talent and my energy to do something to benefit others because I believe that loves to use people to bless other people. My desire is to be a blessing–to offer the use of my hands to do what I can where I can. This is how I will express my gratitude.

I challenge everyone reading this to find ways that they can express their gratitude. If you are reading this that means that you are alive and well thereby giving you much to be thankful for. Pass the blessings along.