Giving Thanks - 11/26/09

For this Thanksgiving, I'm going to express my gratitude to the Universe for music.   I truly feel that great music can be the most meaningful, poetic, and beautiful power in our world.  It has the ability to transform your consciousness, to elevate your thoughts and your experience of yourself, if only briefly, with its energy.  Name another thing in life that can do this.  I can only think of two things, meditation and love.  And meditation, well....you have to have time and patience for that, neither of which I possess, and love is impermanent and transitory.  Yes I'm jaded, but that's neither here nor there.  This is a valid point, besides the love of a parent for their child....most love is, at best....unreliable.

But music...well, that will always be there for you.  Music will be your constant companion throughout your life's journey, mirroring your experiences, enriching them, and even changing your perspective if you let it.  So thank you God / Source / Spirit for music, for how it allows me to acquaint myself with an energy and an innocence that I felt I lost a long time ago.  For getting me in touch with a creativity and a wealth of possibility that I couldn't otherwise reach.  Music is the fire that keeps me going and the joy that makes life worth living.

So Life, thank you so SO much for being filled with passion, truth, and purpose...if only in the music that inspires me.