Ear Worthy Giving Thanks This Year

Meister Eckhart was a 13th-century Christian theologian who once said, “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

Eight hundred years has not diminished the wisdom inherent in that statement. The human condition is such that we too often focus on what we lack and not on what we have.

As a wise person once said, “Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.”

Sadly, Thanksgiving has become a holiday where gratitude is linked to a feast recorded as occurring in 1621. Now being thankful is reduced to a day instead of a daily viewpoint or routine.

I think we can agree that thanking others is an act we do too infrequently. Think about when we do give thanks. When we’re retiring, we finally thank people we worked with for 30 or 40 years. When someone gives us something, whether it be a present, a gift, or a reward for an accomplishment, we give thanks.

I am, sadly, one of those people who does not offer thanks often enough to the people in my life. In the case of the Ear Worthy podcast review site, my personal jury has rendered a verdict. I, too, am guilty of not thanking the people who work with me on Ear Worthy.