What Are You Harvesting This Season!

by | Nov 21, 2017 | Evolution, Inspire | 2 comments

What Are You Harvesting This Season!

by | Nov 21, 2017 | Evolution, Inspire | 2 comments

Quickly moving into the holiday season, I’ve been pondering the true meaning of Thanksgiving and why its celebrated. Like many of you, I look forward to fellowship and feasting with family and friends. This is peak travel season and merchandisers have been preparing for Black Friday. Yet for some, it’s a season of sadness with more people departing this life, some people feeling alienated from family, plus the stress of daily mainstream news and advertising blasts.

Thanksgiving originated as a harvest festival. The “First Thanksgiving” was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621. The Pilgrims invited local Native Americans who contributed to the harvest feast which lasted for three days. For about 50 years the Pilgrims and Wampanoag, a local tribe, lived relatively harmoniously.

For others, Thanksgiving is a story of the slaughter of indigenous people, the theft of their land by European colonists and the early impacts of Christianity and Capitalism in America. Native blood: the truth behind the myth of “Thanksgiving Day

Whatever your perspective on the origins of Thanksgiving in America, it’s a significant harvest season holiday. What are you harvesting at this time? Some of you are reaping the harvest of your diligent efforts. Seeds that were planted at the beginning of the year, or maybe several years ago are now producing. You’ve either nurtured the seeds or you’ve neglected them.

Contemplate your current results:

  • How did you nurture, tend or cultivate the soil in which you planted your seeds?
  • What have your seeds produced?
  • Is there something else required now to reap your reward? 

Whether your harvest is bountiful or scarce, like it or not, you’ve harvested something!

Begin by making a gratitude list and watch it grow organically! 

“Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.” – Christiane Northrup

I’m grateful for my health, family, friends, home, educational pursuits, business evolution, spiritual journey and communities, creative endeavors, cultural diversity of my hometown, international travel and more, as well as the challenges through which I grow and learn. I express gratitude every day!

“Develop an attitude of gratitude and give thanks for everything that happens to you.” – Brian Tracy

Also, it’s not too early to gather seeds (identify intentions) for the New Year’s planting cycle (commitments).

Enjoy receiving and giving thanks!  Bountiful Blessings to you and yours!

Please share what you’re grateful for in the comment section below.

 

2 Comments

  1. Naa-Diane Green

    Grateful for life,family and coming into my own consciousness of wealth and well being.Thankful for the courage to move forward in my life

  2. DeBorah

    I Am grateful for God DIVINELY CONNECTING us as family!
    Love, DeBorah Beatrice MCFADDEN Weathersby ROWLAND

2 Comments

  1. Naa-Diane Green

    Grateful for life,family and coming into my own consciousness of wealth and well being.Thankful for the courage to move forward in my life

  2. DeBorah

    I Am grateful for God DIVINELY CONNECTING us as family!
    Love, DeBorah Beatrice MCFADDEN Weathersby ROWLAND