Thoughtful Thanksgiving

Thoughtful Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving bloggers! I hope each and every one of your thanksgivings were wonderful, and that these breaks gave you time to reflect and spend quality time with friends and family. I wanted to start this week’s blog post by reintroducing the idea of thanksgiving and understanding its value and importance.

Thanksgiving can be defined as a holiday for people to be thankful for what they have. Other definitions state that thanksgiving is a prayer that expresses thanks to God. I would define thanksgiving as a time of focus and reflection on what means the most to a person and what they are thankful for and appreciate, but I think the real meaning of thanksgiving goes even deeper than that. Thanksgiving inspires people.

Thanksgiving inspires people to take action. This is where we find thoughtfulness. Thoughtfulness can be defined as consideration for someone else’s needs, it is going out of one’s own convenience to attend to the wants and needs of another. Thoughtfulness is when you take that time of reflection for who and what you are thankful for, and you put those thoughts into action to show those people how much you mean to them.

I am thankful for so many things in my life. I have been blessed with a wonderful family, an amazing support system from previous teachers and member of my church, many wonderful friends from home, and many friends from college who, in such a short amount of time, have become some of the most important people in my life.

With so many people in my life to be thankful for, I cannot stand by without caring for them and showing them just how much I appreciate them. I can do this by demonstrating thoughtfulness in my daily routine in extravagant ways and in the little things. Regardless of how you go about being thoughtful towards those you are thankful for, the appreciation and value you hold for them will be evident.

Before I introduce this week’s poem I’d like to shoutout a friend of mine, Devin Huisenga. She also has a blog and her most recent post explains some of her close friendships and the experiences and relationships she has with the people closest with her. These are the type of relationships that require investment, appreciation, thankfulness, and thoughtfulness.

This weeks poem is entitled “Arbitrary”.

love is fickle

believe these words

one loves another

till they lose their worth

love is blind

but this vision is clear

unreciprocated love

is a lovers biggest fear

love is careful

it is ever questioning

unless a lover wanders

affection will keep from lessening

love is fickle

I could never deny

love is blind

but not from my eyes

love is careful

when taught to restrain

love is something I can never claim