525,600 Minutes Each Year for Giving Thanks
The annual reminder to be grateful has arrived. Colorful piles of fall leaves cover the ground while thoughts of turkey and stuffing, and pumpkin pie dance in our heads. The season’s commerce engine is already in full regalia with lights, music and every possible kind of enticement to join in the parade.
Yes, now that the brisk fall winds have forced the colored leaves from their trees and bare branches have changed the landscape to winter, like clockwork, our collective consciousness begins to remember that this is the season to be grateful.
For some, the reasons to be grateful are abundant; a beautiful home, an abundance of fresh organic produce from the local farmers' market, a loving family and special friends, and the happy sounds of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. We will enjoy a noisy and boisterous crowd of children and family and pets, along with the fragrance of pumpkin pie spices, flickering candles and gaily-decorated cornucopias adding their festive flair. But what about the rest of the year?
Unfortunately, Thanksgiving 2013 will also be filled with extreme technology. We are always tethered, but sort of disconnected in spite of Facebook, Twitter, Google and the internet. Our iPhones and iPads, FaceTime and Skype, are never far from our reach, and yet, we are probably more lonely and more isolated than ever before.
We stay glued to our devices for the local news, thriving on weather extremes and crime. We watch as planes crash, and as fires, earthquakes, and super storms devastate our neighborhoods.
We are never far from our global friends either. We see them on the TV. Every crisis that touches our neighbors across the world touches us. Hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, earthquakes and tsunamis enter our living rooms with gale force winds as we witness the extreme tragedies that our fellow human beings are suffering in other countries.
When we hear words like devastating, wiped out, tragedy or huge storm surge, our minds and emotions are constantly ‘hijacked’ as the disease of stress takes hold of global populations.
Our eyes are assaulted with pictures in high definition on 52-inch television screens but they don’t truly register. How could they? We cannot begin to imagine such horror, and the sense of fear and worry that make their way silently into the subconscious to live there and influence our collective nervous systems.
Perhaps we have become complacent. Perhaps we have forgotten to be thankful, to notice how blessed we really are. No matter the challenges and suffering of our lives, if we try, we can find moments for which to be grateful.
There are 525,600 minutes each year to celebrate thanksgiving. 525,600 minutes to remember gratitude, to practice presence, to awaken to the precious moment that is now, before it slips away. 525,600 minutes. How do you measure your life?
What if our global peace and awakening is just waiting for each of us to create a positive vibration of gratitude each minute of our day? Now, that would be something for which to be grateful!
May you, my dear friend, be blessed to notice each of the precious 525,600 moments of the year and fill them with the positive vibrations of giving thanks.
SEASONS OF LOVE
Written and composed by Jonathan Larson
Performed in the Broadway musical Rent
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets
In midnights, in cups of coffee
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife
In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure, a year in the life?
How about love?
How about love?
How about love?
Measure in love
Seasons of love Seasons of love
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand journeys to plan
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?
In truths that she learned
Or in times that he cried
In bridges he burned
Or the way that she died
It's time now, to sing out
Though the story never ends
Let's celebrate
Remember a year in the life of friends
Remember the love
(Oh, you got to, you got to remember the love)
Remember the love
(You know that love is a gift from up above)
Remember the love
(Share love, give love, spread love)
Measure in love
(Measure, measure your life in love)
Seasons of love
Seasons of love
(Measure your life, measure your life in love)
Blessings,
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