Thursday Thankfuls

This Thursday is a special one. I am thankful It is considered a sacred day in many places around the world.

The Seder meal reminds the Jewish people that their chosen status is preserved and also show their faith in a power, a deity, unseen, but known, who protects and guides.

I have a lot of gratitude for the upbringing I had, which included the Holy Thursday celebration. For Christians, it shows the reverence Jesus had for his followers by washing their feet. Jesus served others by being who he truly was and doing what he was meant to do. He was the ultimate receiver of all that humanness would allow him. He was totally connected to his Source, his Father, himself, and showed it in all he focused upon in this life. He participated fully in all the contrast of his learning, growing, joys, love, bliss, his pain, anger, desperation, acceptance, hope and passing into non-physical life passionately.

I am reminded and thankful reminiscing about my mom-in-law's passing on this day.This picture was taken a couple years ago when my son Matt participated in a Church service that my Mom and Barney's Mom attended.



Peg was a dynamo of life, focused energetically as a person of enthusiasm, purpose, reverence, principle, competition, fun, love, and joy. She lived her last month with us ill, having enjoyed perfect health and fitness until then. She passed from our physical life on her terms. Peg wanted her family near her, and a few months earlier, seeing her oldest son pass away was most difficult for her. At that time, she decided that living through any other of her children passing was something she was not willing to endure. Her 7 children were around her at home. Her friends and extended family all had a chance to speak with her and visit with her. I am thankful that I experienced this process with her. It gave me a different perspective on death and dying, and I will be grateful forever for it.

So, focused on living, and the full circle of life, Thursday thankfuls include the opening of Trout Fishing Season. The guys have enjoyed some time together fishing. The attached picture is one of them with the summer flounder a few years ago.

I am so thankful that Barney has shared his love of fishing with his son Matt, whose enthusiasm about fishing will be something that will revisit him during his lifetime.

Thursday is a day to be thankful, as all days are!
Best for now,
Mary

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