Truth Message: Mystery–“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of (humankind’s) desire to understand.” –Neil Armstrong 

There is a sense of mystery and wonder to almost everything. Giving thanks and feeling better as a consequence contains a mysterious element. God is mystery. A human being continues to be mystifying. What about counting our blessings then feeling better about it? What is going on within the process of being thankful?

When we think about thankfulness and its components, we realize it is a powerful quality and act. Giving thanks can be an intellectual experience for a very brief time. I believe being grateful and thankful can be packed with feeling.  When we give thanks with feeling we transform any sad or lower feeling we may have had moments ago. 

In my numerous reading, talks on, and personal experience of being thankful, I have come to realize feeling, saying, or thinking ‘thank you’ is energizing and transformative. The more sincere and pure we are in being thankful the greater is the life energy that is generated by it. That is not the reason to give thanks. We most likely give thanks because we are appreciative and grateful for something and to someone. Being thankful is like an inner happiness generator, circulating more joy and contentment within ourselves, our families, business, and in our lives in general. Therefore, feeling thankful is a natural energy boost and healing agent within our being.

However, there is an aspect of mystery around giving thanks. God–which is presence, power, mystery, love, Source, Father, holy Mother, Truth, inner wealth of being, prosperity, life, substance, and so much more–is known and experienced in us by having a thankful heart, by being generous, appreciative, and showing it. God, the Divine presence expands in you and I by being thankful and giving thanks. Gratitude is one of the ways the Divine becomes known or active in us.

In this season of gratefulness, lets hold the intention to be in awe of gratitude and the felicities found in giving thanks. An example from Jesus raising Lazarus and feeding the five thousand are high points revealing the mystery in saying ‘thank you God.’ Be thankful for the known and unknown blessings in giving thanks.    

Be open to the wonder, mystery and power inside the Divine quality and act of being filled with gratitude and acting on it, having the inner feeling of gratitude and letting it take over in us. To let ourselves be mystified by the blessings, upliftment, and prosperity it produces. Heavens–we do not need to over-analyze thankfulness. Instead we accept the gifts of gratitude. Enjoy being thankful. Let yourself be renewed by doing so, Amen.  Rev. Frieda King