What is Gratitude? A Thanksgiving Message

(Apologies for the masculine use of Father God. Creator is certainly not captured by He, She, Them, any more than Light can be gendered.)

Gratitude is a form of Love.

What else could it be?

The children of God

have largely lost Love’s meaning.

Gratitude is one of its noble forms

on earth.

Like love, it is extension.

It is expansion of Self.

Gratitude cannot be

an idea that says,

I am better than another.

Let me count my gifts and possessions.

It cannot be

a counting of blessings.

Your Father is an immeasurable giver.

Who can number the infinite?

Your life in Him is One complete Blessing,

never undone.

Your whole life is a benediction.

We cannot name

this piece or that part

as your little portion

of goodness in the world.

a tiny slice of life (!)

for which you begrudge

a measly thanks.

Your Father is not stingy

as you are with yourself.

Your Self was created

in the abundant appreciation

of God for Itself.

Gratitude runs from a Heart

immensely open,

full and connected with Source.

It is a waterfall of appreciation,

not a trickle of sweat,

not a sweating admiration.

Like all aspects of Love,

it is energetic extension

of positivity and creativity.

Infused with eternal elasticity,

it goes everywhere,

an omni-directional projection

that returns as more of Itself,

engendering miracles,

moving beyond the blocks

of need and doubt.

In its Light,

ego bows into postures

of humbled silence,

serving and allowing Wisdom-Mind

to lead in ways that heal.

You are the home of gratitude.

Without you, Love is homeless,

unfulfilled, pointless.

As you allow your heart

to accept God’s Love,

so is His great-fullness

a bestowal to you.

Perhaps there is a memory

of such bestowal,

a time when someone

unexpectedly did something

so outrageously kind,

your chest swelled,

your eyes brimmed with tears.

Your body forgot how to behave

and feelings overwhelmed the senses.

You wondered,

how am I worthy

of this extraordinary expression

of unearned grace?

Indeed you felt the Great and

Fullness in every cell

of your body!

Child of God,

this is but a smidgen

of your Father’s generosity,

a generosity that lives within,

waiting to be discovered!

This is but a little epiphany,

a tiny sprout rising

at the foot of a Redwood Forest,

a little bloom looking upon

a destiny of mammoth potential.

Your Creator longs for you to have

the great-fullness of His Personality,

(of which thankfulness is a Ray),

and in turn, to pour out to all creation.

You are wholly appreciated

in the same way He appreciates Himself.

He means to give the full bounty

of radiant Love to you.

And His Life, with yours,

depends upon it.

Without you,

His Life is incomplete.

Without you,

He is divided, even imperfect.

You are part of His Perfection

Which must be Total.

You are His Self,

His Hands,

Voice,

Mind,

His Miracle.

You are His Self,

Joy,

Generosity,

Abundance,

and Gratitude.

So it is God covets

and appreciates you,

His Holy Creation, His own Life,

His Self.

You too are given to covet

and return life unreservedly,

to awaken to your deep

and great-full love for Him

as Being, as Author,

as humanity’s Brilliant Womb.

This requires a gratitude

matured from fantasies

of the Creator

as dispensary of goodies.

We are awakening to the Truth of Being

as unequivocal, unconditional Good.

Your gaze upon Him

is one of knowing,

acknowledgment,

Holy Esteem,

and awe-inspired Worthiness.

This childlike Vision allows Him

the greatest reflection of God-Self

illumining you as mirror,

crystalizing your soul as prism

through Which radiates,

Heaven’s emblazoned Grace.

Gratitude brings Grace

piercing through the heart

open to receive Him.

On this day of Thanksgiving,

all creation acknowledges you

and waits for your appreciation.

All creation is transformed

by your unified recognition

of God as Trinity,

the Power,

the Glory

and the Wisdom

behind all that is.

Ever shall It Be.

Today you can become

a great gushing waterfall wakening

to the grand-fullness of all life,

of everything.

Everything He creates

deserves appreciation.

Every being, every creature,

our mother earth,

and all our Friends

have given total allegiance

to our well-being,

to loving us Home,

sharing the purpose of unification.

Your Father has given Love.

Jeshua has demonstrated the form

which is a benediction,

a blessing that awakens you.

Would you not give it too?

Is not blessing

the heart of gratitude?

If so, bow your head

and receive.

Rest for a while

in acknowledgment

of the God that is your Life.

And then,

rest awhile in the benevolent

and beautiful being

that You are.

Indeed, You are the One

Who transposes the Love

of Supreme Omnipotent Intelligence

and offers it to the world

as the great-fullness of the Christ.

Christ in you is blessing

and blesses in turn.

Give whole hearted thanks

to your Life-giver,

and then give thanks to You,

beloved of God

and lover of Creation,

His living, breathing Word

of glory and praise.

You are His church,

the holy temple this season

in which Appreciation abides.

God Loves you, as I do.

Blessed Thanksgiving.

Post script: As I was editing these words this morning, I heard: I am Jeshua, and I approve this message. We laughed out loud. Looking up from the page I saw the sun’s rays piercing a plastic seltzer bottle, left on the windowsill by last night’s guests. The light blinded my vision, the rays as powerful, golden and intense as the sun itself. I could not help but feel this light as His Heart fire, shining and splaying into my life. This was the miracle of transposing a common plastic bottle into an extraordinary blessing. So much more is our life transposing Christ Consciousness into beams too bright for eyes. I am enflamed with gratitude.

Ever Love,

MaryBeth

What is Gratitude?is an excerpt from the book,?Write, Beloved, Write.?Available at?Book Baby?or Amazon Books. or by contacting MaryBeth Scalice [email protected]