Happy Thanksgiving!

Today I wish to extend my gratitude and appreciation to YOU!
I am grateful for your interest in living your life fully, following your dreams, pursuing your happiness, finding inner peace, and experiencing the joy of grace, love, compassion, kindness, and mindfulness!

As you may gather with your loved ones later today to celebrate Thanksgiving, you may like to give thanks to your family and friends celebrating with you and the abundance of food.

Throughout history, cultures and religions, it has become a wonderful tradition to express gratitude for our food, considering everything it took for it to grow, ripen and eventually being harvested and shipped to your location. As for meat, we may like to express our gratitude to the animal(s), giving their lives for our nourishment.

Below please find different ways to express our gratitude for our meals, on Thanksgiving, or any day.

If you have a certain prayer or blessing and would be open to sharing it with me and/or others, I would love to hear from you! Drop me an email, leave a comment on my blog post webpage or on the Mendocino Healing Facebook page.

With gratitude and appreciation,

Tanja

~ Tanja Alexandra Kern

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Blessed be the Earth for providing us this food
Blessed be the Sun for helping it to grow
Blessed be the Wind and Birds for carrying its seed
Blessed be the Rain for the water’s loving flow.
Blessed be the hands that helped prepare this meal,
May those hands and our hands, bodies too, be well and quick to heal.
Blessed be our friends, our families, and all of our loved ones.
Blessed be our mother earth, our father sky and sun.
     ~ Christian mealtime prayer

Let us be together; let us eat together.
Let us be vital together, let us be radiating truth, radiating the light of life.
Never shall we denounce anyone, never entertain negativity.
      ~ The Upanishads

Om, beloved mother nature, you are here on our table as food.
You are endlessly bountiful, benefactress of all.
Grant us health and strength, wisdom and dispassion,
and help us share this with one and all.
      ~ Hindu mealtime prayer

Dear earth who gives to us this food,
Dear sun who makes it ripe and good,
Sun above and earth below,
Our loving thanks to you we show.
Blessings on our meal.
     ~ Secular mealtime prayer