It's been a good year. I can't deny that I'm concerned about the economic future, but for now, everything is good, and that's enough for me. The past is gone and the future is always a land of hazy variables. The present--this moment, the Now, the holy present--is the only thing we can control. And at this moment, I'm happy and thankful. I hope all of you are, too.
I don't blog on holidays, but I produce a handful of quotes. Keeping with that tradition:
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” Samuel Johnson
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” G.K. Chesterton
“Gratitude is characteristic only of the humble. The egotistic are so impressed by their own importance that they take everything given them as if it were their due. They have no room in their hearts for recollection of the undeserved favors they received.” Fulton Sheen
“Draft day and Thanksgiving Day are the only good days to be a Detroit Lions fan.” Eric Scheske
Pray for the atheists today, their hardest day of the year. Anonymous
“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.” St. Jerome
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.” Meister Eckhart
