Thank You God!

I have a clear childhood memory of the little prayer that we used to sing before meals:

Thank you for the world so sweet,

Thank you for the food we eat,

Thank you for the birds that sing,

Thank you God for everything.

 

Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we have been celebrating Harvest time, (and, of course, it is Spring in the Southern Hemisphere), and it is a traditional time for saying `Thank you`, maybe something we forget in these days when food, vegetables and fruit are imported from all over the world!

 

But as I walk in our English countryside, seeing the abundance of nature, my heart is full of thankfulness that our world is so lovely, and so full of such an infinite variety of beauty. I heard a chaffinch singing  happily this morning, and even butterflies still around, bees buzzing in the warm autumn sunshine, and saw so many colourful flowers in gardens and hedgerows. i couldn`t help myself from saying inwardly many times, just simply `Thank you God!`

 

There is a passage of White Eagle`s teaching about thankfulness in 'Prayer, Mindfulness and Inner Change', in which he makes a different point about thankfulness, which I often contemplate too, and want to share now, as I feel it is important when we look out at the many things going on in our world today. He says:

 

'When we sit in the silence and commune with the invisible, we become aware of the praise and thanksgiving flowing from the heart of God. It may seem strange to you to think of God giving thanks, but we ask you to consider this idea of God pouring forth thankfulness. God created the world, the heavens and all things. And God gave thanks when he beheld his creation.'

 

I believe that this is so, no matter what humankind are doing! The gift of thankfulness is healing in so many ways, and our thankfulness is part of our own healing service to the whole of God`s creation, linking in a magical way with the vibration of thankfulness flowing from the heartbeat of all life.