As we pray and feast on this Thanksgiving Day, we choose,
despite the darkness in our lives, in our world, to pause and thank God that
his lovingkindness is always going before us and filling us with hope; we pause
to thank Him because we believe that his mercies are never outdone. And although
we often do not understand, we dare to believe that his desire for
us and all people is full of grace and mercy and unfathomable kindness.
With the poet John O’Donohue, we have faith that “at the deepest
level of reality some intimate kindness holds sway. This is the heart of
blessing. To believe in blessing is to believe that our being here, our very
presence in the world, is itself the…primal blessing."
