THANKS GIVING

November 22nd, Thankgiving
On this day Americans give a day to giving thanks, there is One to whom all thanks is due, in my life and in all life. There is One to whom life comes and returns. There is One who is Love, a Presence, an unending transforming energy, and even more that cannot be comprehended. How can I begin to express enough thanks that beyond mortal life and death is a Love that holds all, transforming but never losing.
The past two nights of hard frost produced "snowfalls" of leaves in the morning hours -- deciduous trees allowing the frost's weight and cold to free the branches of remaining leaves. A year ago an early snowfall left some trees with branches almost dragging the ground with snow laden leaves. I shook the snow off to keep the branches from breaking; even as the snow flew down my jacket collar, up my gloves, and into my boots. What was such discomfort compared to the threatening burden? My energy was used to assist a life to continue in its same form.
As I heard the cracking of tree limbs further away, I joined my consciousness with the consciousness shared by all life. There I could both affirm the individual life and encourage it on in its transformation – to whatever degree it took. I learned long ago that grieving is a willingness to be part of such transformation. Today I give thanks that I can grieve.
Unitive consciousness is possible through Love. Wondrously, Love holds both individuality and totality: individual consciousness and unitive consciousness; individual form and shared essence that gives form to all. We are shown that the union of individuals produces more than themselves. The more individuality within Love the more diversity, complexity, and exquisiteness of the Total. Today I give thanks upon thanks that Love is made more exquisite by the individuality with which it expresses itself.
With unitive consciousness in mortality there is a "Living into life and death, honorably and with dignity" because there is recognition that there is so much more to Love. Nature and creatures have evolved in this, but humans as a species are woefully behind. We humans have a long ways to go in achieving that consciousness. So this night I thank all nature and all the creatures for what they teach humans each day, if we would but learn.
Many went to church today to give thanks. Even more quietly said prayers of gratitude, acknowledging and honoring that which is beyond the life/death cycle. In this New Age of Awakening Human Consciousness so many now can inherently know what to be thankful for. Less and less will people think of this Source as something unreachable except by going through some person, structure, or set of strict behaviors. I give thanks upon thanks that human consciousness is undergoing an evolutionary leap to that unitive consciousness with all life and the very Source of life.
The time is quickly coming when understanding and developing unitive consciousness will be the first principle of all human endeavors and development. And the authenticity of this will be the recognition that diversity and individuality continually expands the forms expressed by unitive consciousness. I give thanks today that more exquisite expressions and forms, not regimented commonality, will come through unitive consciousness.
Love is the energy of united consciousness, the substance of unitive consciousness producing the myriad of individual forms of expression. But BEST OF ALL, Love is PRESENCE. Love is more Present to us than we can ever be to it. Love's Presence is what each and every human yearns for. Tragically, humans in fragmented consciousness seek Love in forms of gratifications. Not giving in to this is the way to Love.
My childhood left me very fragmented, but I never lost sight of Love itself. And this Love healed and gave me wholeness. (This may sound trite to those who have not lived this.) In this wholeness I found Love in people, creatures, nature, and all its exquisite forms.

I had poured out the ache of fragmentation musically, the search musically, and the celebration musically. I speak the language of Love best musically. Others articulate Love's genius in scientific discourse. Every person of Love has a particular form they best express in. I am so Thankful for each and every person who has raised their consciousness to be with/in this Presence and expresses what comes through this.
I believe there must be some critical threshold of the number of people who have lived into unitive consciousness before the species as a whole actualizes the evolutionary leap. And then human culture will know how to develop the unitive consciousness in each person; how to live in union with all other life through this unitive consciousness. This will be the time when inherent understanding will exist. People will not have to be taught this understanding, but will develop and integrate on the basis of its foundation. I give Thanks already.