Thanksgiving Is Good, But…
For all that has been — thanks. For all that shall be — yes.
That’s from Dag Hammarskjöld, the Swedish diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner and second Secretary General of the UN, who died in a plane crash in 1961.” I thought these two sentences were the most compact summary of an Inquiry Into A Gratitude-Inspired Life I had yet seen.
And then I came across this even shorter summary–
Thanksgiving is good, but Thanksliving is better
Seven pithy words that leave me humbled and grateful and stunned at their simple elegance. Seven words I had never seen before. Seven words attributed to Matthew Henry, the Welsh Nonconformist minister and author who lived from October 18, 1662 to June 22, 1714. This was long before Abraham Lincoln decreed that the fourth Thursday of every November should be set aside as a day of Thanksgiving in the U.S.
I offer them to you today to do with as you choose, wherever, and with whomever, you are gathered. May they help us all live more thankfully every day.
