Wednesday, 21 November 2012

A Meditation on Thankfulness



On the day I am writing this, we are blessed with glorious winter sunshine. I have just been walking on the Downs beside the sea in one of my favourite earthly places in all the world. A gentle breeze was blowing on my face. I listened to the sound of the sea breaking on the shore below me and sea gulls calling. I looked spellbound at the glorious views in the misty early morning light. ‘This is heaven on earth’, I thought. ‘When I die, this is where I shall be, with loved ones at my side’. (I had felt them there with me in their ‘bodies of light’ as I walked in my physical body.)

Remembrance Sunday has only just passed by—a day of remembrance and thankfulness for loved ones and many lives of service. The theme of thankfulness was deep in my soul as I walked, and I started to list all the things for which I wanted to say ‘thank you God’. I’m sure many of you have done this, but if not maybe you’d like to try it next time you go for a walk in nature, or an inner walk in your body of light! I find it really wonderful the way a simple ‘thank you God’ opens the mind and heart to receive even more blessing, deep peace and true and lasting happiness.

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