A Moment of Thanksgiving

We commemorate our living

A Villanelle

Family praying holding hands at Thanksgiving table. Flat-lay of feasting peoples hands over Friendsgiving table with Autumn food, candles, roasted turkey and pumpkin pie over wooden table, top view — Adobe Stock licensed- By sonyakamoz

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We commemorate our living
this time of grief and chaos,
a moment of thanksgiving.

Never once forgetting,
we watch the road before us,
we commemorate our living.

We are never missing
the grace of hope within us,
a moment of thanksgiving,

And find ourselves resisting
the dread now placed upon us,
we commemorate our living.

This life itself providing
its breath, once more enfolds us,
a moment of thanksgiving.

With arms and hands uplifting
the very least among us,
we commemorate our living,
a moment of thanksgiving.

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It is likely the most pivotal and potentially dark Thanksgiving Day we have yet experienced in our country. As in the 1600s, will we be a people more akin to the original Pilgrims or will we be a continuance of the Puritans who closely followed? Though they share the same religious heritage, their praxis was remarkably opposite.

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