There Is No Substitute for Gratitude

November 28, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is The Gifts of Life, in honor of Thanksgiving, which this year is celebrated on Thursday, November 28.

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A Thanksgiving poem about the gift of gratitude:

There is no substitute for gratitude.

Here or there, the gift is just the same.

A joyful life depends on attitude,

Nor does one need a giver or a name.

Knowledge is not needed, nor is faith,

So long as one is struck by being's beauty,

Going humbly, as the preacher saith,

Immersed in the minutiae of one's duty.

Vast the suffering and fierce the pain.

In life is death; in every moment fear.

Nonetheless, one would one's life sustain,

Grateful for the gift of being here.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: The Gifts of Life

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