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Being Thankful

 

How can we cultivate thankfulness at the end of the year? The year's end gives an opportunity to reflect and consider everything that has happened since the beginning of the year. The autumn's harvest coincides with our own efforts and chances we took during the time of earlier sowing and growing. As leaves change colors and fall from the trees, meditate on your own changes, possibly into a mode of storing and gleaning the developments of actions and patience and words said earlier in the year.




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