The month of being thankful

Reading from Tuesday, November 10, 2015 yoga class

Since it is the month of Thanksgiving... thankfulness and gratitude are the theme.  This is from the book "Spiritual Literacy"

"Let me describe my grateful center to you.  I was seven years old, and my parents were trying to move to the West Coast.  Our relative poverty, however, caught up with us, and we were forced to winter in the cabin of an uncle in the Rocky Mountains.  The time was difficult for my parents, I am sure, but for me it was glory...

But my most vivid memory is of the fireplace. (I had never been around a fireplace before, all our heat heretofore having come from the coal furnace in our Nebraska home.)  Every night I would pull out the bed that hid in the couch by day and climb under the heavy quilts, my head less than ten feet away from the crackling warmth.  Night after night I would fall asleep, watching this strange yellow blaze that warmed us all. I was in my grateful center."   Richard J. Foster in Prayer