Might gratitude, indeed, be exactly what is called for in order for us to turn towards the world with all its difficulties and all its suffering, with the energy, creativity and love to do something about it all?

This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.  Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify.

Here's our source for this week:

Thanks 

Inside each honest thank you

is a giant open-air pavilion

beside a curving and generous pond

that reflects the sky and is home

to cormorants, white egrets,

turtles, and humble ducks.

There is laughter that rings

through the archways,

wonder that wanders the paths.

There are angels that circle

each thank you spoken with love,

whether we believe in angels or not.

Every sincere expression of thanks

is a choice to meet what is good in the world

and to honor it with our attention.

There are thousands and thousands

of reasons to forget we are grateful,

and yet just one genuine thank you

builds an improbable palace

out of the moment, fills it with beauty,

shares it with the world, asks nothing in return.

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