Thanksgiving Message 2024
I’m sorry I’m late with my Thanksgiving wishes this year. There are too many issues that fill up my thoughts. The continuation of wars and conflicts, the steps toward a solution to climate change, and political decisions that have caused much anger, anxiety, depression, and hate. Add to that diseases, homelessness, and food shortages around the world. Where is our future headed? All these pressing concerns made it difficult for me to create a Thanksgiving message.
The path that we’ve chosen to take is a difficult one. Our unity seems shattered by a change in our perception of who we are. As a nation where we were one, willing to disagree but accept each other, we are now divided into groups. Groups of individuals that are unwilling to accept each other, hence, do not work with each other for the common good.
As I said in last year’s message, the seeds needed to grow and nurture things to be grateful for must be planted deep into our hearts and minds. Let them grow and flourish this year to build a world where people listen to each other. A world where individual differences are accepted and compromises made. A world of peace, not destruction. A world of beauty.
I know it’s hard now. The anger we feel, the frustration, and the sense of hopelessness block those seeds from germinating fully. We cannot let those hindrances block what we need to survive.
Don’t give up. Don’t distance yourself from what we can do together despite those who threaten to prevent us from working together.
Change happens, not always for the good; however, we still can overcome the blocks. We just need to focus on who we are and want to be.
It’s okay to be angry and frustrated sometimes, but don’t let it overshadow you: my friends, family, and all I work with and care about. Stay strong. For then, we will have lots to be thankful for. And we can continue to celebrate Thanksgiving every day of the year.
To all my friends, family, acquaintances, and everyone else, that is my wish for you, a little late, for Thanksgiving day, 2024 and on. Be well. Stay safe.
