As I am writing this, it’s about 3 hours until I turn 22 *cue Taylor Swift LOL*. And today also is Canadian Thanksgiving, so Happy Thanksgiving!!
As a kid, I never really appreciated having my birthday most of the time being around thanksgiving weekend. I always saw it as a hindrance to the special day that which is my birthday. Celebrations would either be postponed because of Thanksgiving plans, or it’d simply be combined with Thanksgiving dinners because it was a lot easier to do so. Now of course, this isn’t like having your birthday on Christmas, which I thought sucked because you would only get one set of presents rather than double lol. But now that I’ve become more aware of myself, spiritually especially, I am more appreciative and understanding of the significance of having Thanksgiving and my birthday fall around the same time.
And especially in the past few years, I began to not associate my birthday as a means of receiving gifts, but instead I began to see the gifts I have at those moments and the gifts I have received from God the past year.
Today, I was able to celebrate Thanksgiving in the best way possible, by going to Mass. All that I have received in the past year, all the good, successes, beautiful things and even the things that aren’t so good, all come from God. And in today’s Mass I reflected on this one thought that to practice gratitude should never lie on a solitary day but rather be practiced every single day, hour, minute, and second of our lives. And what better way to give thanks than to go to Mass.
Thank You Lord for another year, for blessing me with a life that I can use to proclaim Your greatness. Thank You for all the ups and downs, for the times of victory and times of defeat, that in each moment I have grown closer to You. Thank you for all the people in my life, for my family, my friends, and even the strangers I encounter. I thank You for everything, and I continue to entrust all things to You.
AMDG.