A Pledge For Grateful Living by Brother David Steindl-Rast For those of us who live in the United States and are about to celebrate Thanksgiving, this might be an appropriate pledge to share at the table and discuss. And perhaps folks will make their own pledge; will you? In thanksgiving for life, I pledge to overcome the illusion of entitlement by reminding myself that everything is gift and, thus, to live gratefully. In thanksgiving for life, I pledge to overcome my greed, that confuses wants with needs, by trusting that enough for all our needs is given to us and to share generously what I so generously receive. In thanksgiving for life, I pledge to overcome apathy by waking up to the opportunities that a given moment offers me and so to respond creatively to every situation. In thanksgiving for life, I pledge to overcome violence by observing that fighting violence by violence leads to more violence and death and, thus, to foster life by acting non-violently. In thanksgiving to life, I pledge to overcome fear which is the root of all violence by looking at whatever I fear as an opportunity and, thus, courageously to lay the foundation for a peaceful future.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 17:22:22 +0000
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