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Thanksgiving

A family sharing a meal at a dining table, with smiles and a turkey being served.

Thanksgiving celebrates bounty, and offers us the opportunity to express gratitude for the simple pleasures of food, family, and friends. On Thanksgiving, we focus on the happiness of the moment—the table set before us and the faces gathered around it. As we appreciate these gifts, we live in the present without lingering on regrets from the past or worries about the future. Many communities use Thanksgiving as a time for multi-faith services of prayer and thanksgiving. This creates a mood of joyful reverence that gives an elevated shape to the American holiday season.
 

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This poem was written to express gratitude for one Haitian immigrant and lift up the value of welcoming the stranger.
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“My gratitude is not for tourists.”
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These four prompts offer ways to share different experiences of gratitude at your Thanksgiving table. 
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“Get to know the tribe whose land you are on”

 
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Bringing mindfulness to the act of welcoming guests through a chant and series of ritual intentions

a person is setting a table
This land belongs to no one / but God. The Earth was here / before us and will endure / after we are gone.
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may you be blessed / with radical refusal
a person is hiking in the woods on a foggy day

God is good and good things happen

a family enjoys a Thanksgiving meal

Is there holiness in the bounty that breaks and bereaves?

a person is crossing off days on a paper calendar

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