
Thanksgiving: A Feast for the Soul
Grateful thinking helps people extract the most possible enjoyment from their circumstances.
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Grateful thinking helps people extract the most possible enjoyment from their circumstances.

Sit in silence for a few moments. Feel your heart beat and your breath as you inhale and exhale. During this time, there is nothing to accomplish.

The peregrine falcon, spotted fawn, playful dolphin: all show us different faces of God. A hummingbird smaller than most human fists can fly over 500 miles without resting. Each one visits 1,000 flowers a day and can dive at 60 mph.

St. Augustine got a few things right, others spectacularly wrong. But his mother, St. Monica, never gave up on him.

People found Jesus scandalously ordinary. Why couldn’t he muster some pyrotechnics, or at least a last-minute save from the crucifix?

How respectfully St. Paul speaks with Athenians, “looking carefully” at their shrines. He credits their poets for expressing that we too are God’s offspring.

“God has a dream for you,” St. Ignatius of Loyola said. And best of all it accords with our own deepest desires.
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