One year, our family wanted to have a different kind of Christmas. We didn’t want frivolity or materialism to overpower the spirit of peace and good will that the first Christmas promised.
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A traditional Tha
nksgiving grace ends with, “For what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful.” One of my favorite wisdom books, Science and Health with key to the Scriptures, has a lot to say about giving thanks.
“Are we really grateful for the good already received?” it asks. “Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more.”
The Bible holds beautiful images of flowing water as sacred metaphors for refreshment, goodness, purity, spirituality, peace, and life itself. I love to sit by a river, especially our local McKenzie river as it comes down the mountains, and watch the water flow over, around, and through the obstructions placed in its path. To me, it’s a metaphor for unstressed persistence and the continual newness of now. The water I see before me is never the same in one moment as the next. It has a musical joy that flows unimpeded from its inexhaustible headwaters.
Always moving, always fresh, rivers also represent the constant inspiration of divine Mind, the source of all movement. The human mind has so many limitations it has placed on itself. It is said that 90% of its thoughts are the same every day.