Thanksgiving
Autumn Reflection
Autumn is a time for deep
reflection, introspection, thanksgiving, stillness, and harvest.
As the leaves have begun to
display their mellow and rich hues of amber, orange, red, and sienna, they seem
to suggest to each of us that the innocence of the season of spring and the
boldness of the season of summer have acquiesced themselves to mellowness and
kindly wisdom of the ages.
As we reflect upon our journey
against the backdrop of the earlier part of the year, we do so in the spirit of
relief and anticipation, in the spirit of challenge and triumph, in the spirit
of solemnity and joy, in the spirit of weariness and rest, in the spirit
of inertia and change, in the spirit of incredible gains and necessary losses,
in the spirit of astonishment and enlightenment, in the spirit of planting and
harvest, in the spirit of struggle and surrender, in the spirit of
transformation and transcendence, and with the reflective awareness of our
finiteness and infiniteness all being informed by gentle, yet rich wisdom.
God, we render to unto you thanksgiving
for the lives by which we have been impacted and we thank you for the lives
that have intertwined with our own lives. We render unto you thanksgiving for
the lives of those whom we are given responsibility to co-journey in service,
healing, friendship, affirmation, empowerment, struggle, empowerment, truth,
and transformation!
God, we thank you for the lives
of your beloved and resilient children, who forge the spiritual journey with a
banner of faith, love, joy, and trust all informed by an intrinsic
understanding that we serve each other in a spirit of love with no judgment. We
thank you that we serve each other celebrating our unfathomable faith and
strengths with the belief that eyes have not seen, neither have ears heard of
their uncharted and unlimited possibilities.
God, during this season of
harvest, we thank you for an overflowing cornucopia of love and hope, compassion
and persistence, empathy and competence, tenacity and vision, gentleness and
care, mission and creativity, blessed by the service, wisdom, and presence of
your beloved, gifted, and talented people who serve in a plethora of
capacities from leaders to visionaries, from teachers to artists, from
receptionists to direct care persons, from outreach persons to those persons
who are in the helping and healing professions, from environmental services
persons to persons in finance, and from administrative support staff to management,
(and endless list) etc. We thank you for each of them dear Lord! We thank you
for those who are named as well as those who are unnamed. We are blessed by
each other’s gifts and offerings in service. We thank you that we are our
brothers' and sisters' keepers and delight in and are humble by such a charge.
We thank you for the opportunity to serve and to be transformed by having
served.
We release, like fallen and
ripened leaves into the Autumn winds, weights and burdens, misperceptions and
deflated hopes, fears and doubts, worries and anxieties, hurts and wounds, and
limitations and insufficiencies…shedding the aforementioned for a bountiful
harvest of grace, patience, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, joy,
mindfulness, kindness, rejuvenation, and a love that holds us in its grasp
forever, while never letting us go.
God, we thank you for
relationships, spiritual union, community, table fellowship, the
unknown, and the opportunity to gather in a spirit of gratitude, thanksgiving,
strength, camaraderie, celebration, humility, grace, and power. We render unto
you these petitions, we pray. Yes, this is true, Let it be so, So be it, May it
be so, Amen. Peace
Reverend Kevin Mason
Be Blessed
K. Mason
(c) 2015
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