Thanksgiving is not for God, but for us. Praise raises our consciousness to a level where we easily respond to the divine flow. When it is “the Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom,” the need is to get our thoughts on the level of acceptance.

Thanksgiving is a way by which we raise our thoughts to that level of acceptance. Thus, thinking good is thanking God.

To say, “I thank God,” and still thinking negatively is self-deluding. In a very real sense, if a person thanks God and still is filled with negativity, he is something less than “bearing witness to the Truth.”

The Thanksgiving principle is the key to positive thinking. Negative thoughts are normally centered in how bad things are. Turn your thoughts from what you have not and realize what you have in terms of your access to the Universal flow. Give thanks from this awareness.

Suddenly you are in a positive frame of mind. This thought is your realistic Thanksgiving. The Spirit within is a ceaseless urge to express in and through and as you. Thus, when you become “affirmatively receptive” by your good thoughts, it is as if the Spirit claps its hands with joy because you have made yourself an “organ of its activity.”

Thus, we do not have to thank God for things, but rather to “enter in and experience the Thanksgiving feast of the mind” and give thanks from the awareness of it.

True gratitude makes us great, increases our feeling of self-worth, expands our ability to see the good in people and situations, and thus to extract the best from life. When we become “affirmatively receptive” to the divine flow, we begin to see things from God-consciousness, and we actually project a flow of good.

Giving thanks for our many blessings is good, but there is so much more. Thanksgiving can be an active projection of good through seeing transcendentally.

It is a good time to take a Thanksgiving walk, even if in imagination, and project a blessing to people, conditions and things. It is a beautiful time to salute the divinity withi people, all people, and to celebrate the good everywhere. Take your Thanksgiving walk and raise your hands to people in blessing, even if not literally then figuratively in your own consciousness.

You can make every day a Thanksgiving Day of celebration. Resolve to raise your thoughts to the highest possible level about people, conditions, and things, knowing that thinking good is thanking God.

 God is Blessing You, Right Now!

Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham

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Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham, a Unity minister for over thirty-seven years, invites you to subscribe to his free inspirational newsletter, Spiritual Solutions.
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