Thanksgiving and Gratetude the Most Powerful Force in the Universe

Wow, it’s November, almost anyway! November is one of the most curious months when it comes to Spiritual Principles.  Why, because we have a great big holiday called Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving and Gratitude is most powerful Force in the Universe. It is a time we are suppose too focus on family and all the things that we are grateful and thankful for.  Yes, what in life do you have to be thankful for? Give a glad shout of joy for all you are gratefully for!  Then on the other side of the corner is Unity’s 12 Powers Teaching on Release, Letting Go and Elimination.  Well which is it? If I am thankful why do I have to release it and if I let it go of what I am Thankful for what I have?  Hum! Well, what if I told you it’s one of those paradoxes of the Spiritual Journey, you can’t have one without doing the other!

Take for instance, this crazy shingles thing I have been fighting for almost 2 months now. Louise Hays says it because I would be experiencing some kind of stress or anxiety, as several well intending people have told me.  My response is, WHAT DO I HAVE TO STRESSED or ANXIOUS about? I am a Unity Minister who is supposed to be upbeat and positive and always focused on the goodness and the wonderful things going on around me.  Yea, right! Have you turned on the TV News recently (I haven’t) there are just a few crazy things going on in the world, a pandemic that has restricted many of the things we do and cut our income drastically and aren’t in a position to pay all our bills (please send money), then there are these hate-filled divisive election focused on negativity and what’s wrong with the other, then there is the violence in the street and tearing down of sacred statues.  What do I have to stressed and anxious about?  No wonder the shingles were so severe. Ouchy!

But how can you be happy and thankful is you are made at someone or something? So, what can I do?  Just blow it out and go howl at the moon! Yes, I need to release all that stuff and letting it go! Seeing everyone and everything being lifted up within the moment and being guided in the right and perfect direction to resolve the issues at hand, seeing healing taking place in all of our hearts and bodies! Yes, hallow out a place within our hearts and minds, only then we can feel and know the Infinite Presence, feeling the Divine Vibration moving through us guiding us to the goodness and wonder we seek.  You do know that is actually what the Druid High Holiday of Halloween is supposed to be about, which sets up the feelings of thanksgiving and joy in November!

The Spiritual Paradox is you can’t experience the deeper sense of Thanksgiving without first releasing and letting go of all you are holding onto and feel the need to control and have everything your way.  Yes, true healing needs to take place. Seeing Divine Life pouring down upon you, dissolving and releasing all the things in the Shadows of Your Mind, then denying the power of those old events and beliefs might have over you, so you can be fully present to this moment now.   When you hallow out a place to hold Life sacred you move into what Jesus and Siddhartha and Papa Charlie called the Secret.  When you enter this Secret place, your whole being will experience a profound sense of joy and wonder! Thanksgiving will just begin to flow!  You will be aware of all you need to do, and you will experience blessing upon blessing as you do. Wow! You do know this is actually what the Lord’s Prayer is supposed to engage, a deeper sense of gratitude and thanksgiving, the most powerful force in the Universe.  Wow!

Namaste, I see the light in you, RevDoc. Patrick