THANK YOU by Amara Pearl VanOrden: A Prologue to the Thanksgiving Season
Thank you music
Thank you to all the poets, singers, artists
All the creative minds ever imagined and brought to past
Thank you Picasso, Raphael, Da Vinci, Michael Angelo…
Thank you Plato, Socrates, Aristotle….
Thank you Sparta and Athens
The 300 warriors at Thermoplyae
Thank you to Shelley and her Frankenstein
Thank you Shakespeare and his Hamlet
Thank you Emily Dickinson
Thank you Jane Austen
Thank you to the monks who kept records
Wrote stories and history preserved
In their faithful monastery walls
Thank you Achilles, Athena, and Thor….
Thank you all constitution signers
Thank you Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jefferson…
Thank you Bill Gates and IBM
Thank you to Gray’s Anatomy and healers
Thank you to those who stand up for what is right and true
Thank you Gandhi
Thank you Martin Luther King Jr.
Thank you to those who defend freedom and the right to live
Thank you to warm showers, clean water, and plentiful food
Thank you to warm or light clothes
Thank you to teachers and educators and researchers
Thank you to health care and insurance
Thank you to those who listen, smile, or make others laugh
Thank you to strangers that compliment or comment
Thank you to strangers that help a dead car or person in the ditch
Thank you libraries and cafes
Thank you Lara Croft and Indiana Jones
The countries and cultures I have discovered
The adventurous spirit I have gained
Thank you dance instructors and coaches
Thank you to yoga and treadmills
Thank you to paper, my means of venting, recording
Sets my imagination and heart free
Thank you to those who broke my heart or rejected me
I am a lot better without them
Yet stronger and wiser because of them
Thank you pain receptors and emotional reactions
I can feel and experience and my heart grows bigger
Thank you to the liars and users
I can better avoid the manipulators and cold ones
Or act ignorant but still be civil
Thank you to those who dared me or pushed me
Thank you Mother Nature
The peace and inspiration I have gained on her mountains
In her woods and on her trails
Thank you to God
Who gave me life and a family
For answering my prayers, showering me with blessings
Thank you to my King and Savior
For forgiving me, holding me up, and healing me
Helping me through the worst of times
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
And the list goes on!
Just a few things
I cannot imagine myself without or the world without
By: Amara Van Orden
“Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for the gift.” – Unknown
“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.” -Anthony Robbins
“Both abundance and lack [of abundance] exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend … when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present—love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us [happiness]—the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach