I am grateful for the privilege that lets me live on Vancouver Island
I am grateful to be a visitor on the traditional lands of the Lek’wungen People
I am grateful for the freedom to walk on the beach at dusk in safety
I am grateful for being a white male
in a world of violence towards women
I thank the creator for all the gifts I share
I thank the creator for all of you
I’m grateful
for the privilege of sharing
this moment
this now
with you
David Trudel © 2014
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Merry Christmas everyone. Thank you for all the kind thoughts you have sent my way over the past year, it really meant a lot to me recovering from surgery. Every day is a gift. I find that everywhere I look there is beauty, although sometimes it takes a special moment to find the divine in the mundane.
Best wishes and hugs to all.
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I’d like to take a moment to say thank you to my readers. I have some very faithful visitors to this site and I am humbled by your interest and support. For those of you who also write I apologize for not visiting your sites as much as I should. Again, thanks for reading what I write.
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Gratitude
Today I declare gratitude
Thankfulness for life
For being here in this place of privilege
For what limited freedom I enjoy
I am grateful I can choose my own spirituality
My beliefs are my own and not imposed
By frowning arbiters of mythological excess
I am grateful to the women that have spurned me
Leaving me space for universal enjoyment
Gifting me the time I would have spent
On worrying about your affection and your desires
I am grateful for the beauty of nature
That unfolds around us daily
I revel in the wonders of this web of life
Smiling as I uncover each unread volume of the divine library
I thank everyone who has ever smiled at a stranger
Or given freely from a threadbare pocket
This is such a wondrous time to be alive
When thoughts and dreams are interchanged
Across the world at lightning speed
Where knowledge grows organically
Even in the face of repression
I am grateful for the resilience of the oppressed
Who are strong enough to heal publicly
Becoming leaders for the lost
I am thankful for irrepressible music
Pervasively bathing us in harmonic resonance
I thank the artists who reinterpret truth
With inspiration and dedication
I raise my hands in praise of caregivers
Who reach out with compassion and generosity
I am grateful for all the love that has come my way
And for those I have been honoured to love
I give thanks
To all the forces that conspire to unlonely the affliction of despair
I am grateful
Just to be here
Understanding that now
Is a reflection of forever
And for that I am eternally happy in my gratitude
David Trudel © 2013
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