On My Brother at Thanksgiving: A time for reflection, repair & rejuvenation

Getting to the heart and soul of Thanksgiving

November 23, 2011

At this season we reflect on the spiritual significance of thanksgiving with the following words of Abdu’l-Baha, son of Baha’u’llah, Founder of the Baha’i Faith. Abdu’l-Baha shared these thoughts when he visited the United States in 1912:

“Thankfulness is of various kinds. There is a verbal thanksgiving which is confined to a mere utterance of gratitude. This is of no importance because perchance the tongue may give thanks while the heart is unaware of it. ...

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My brother spent his first Thanksgiving without his wife Diane. Her sister Pat invited him over. Her home is lovely, a California oasis,  and Thanksgiving, the most Baha'i-like of the national holidays, a time for reflection, repair, and rejuvenation.

 

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