This Only Happens Once A Year

Here in the States, the Thanksgiving holiday has arrived. The holiday used to be about giving thanks for family and life but has kind of morphed into an eating and shopping holiday. Not only that, but even before the turkey is in the oven, Christmas lights are being strung up and Christmas decorations are being placed on the lawn. Everyone is in a hurry to experience the Holy Trinity of holidays: Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Year's.

During this time people try to be a little more accepting of one another, a little more giving. Strangers talk to one another. Yes, there are many who suffer during this time but for the most part it appears that the world really looks forward to year's end. People are generally happier, nicer, more pleasant.

Why is this so? It is because humanity is chasing Love, Freedom and Beauty in any form it can find. These few weeks at the end of the year afford humanity an opportunity to experience how 'good' life can be. It something that we rarely get to experience.  This makes the experience special as it "only happens once a year".

But why? Why only once a year? Why pull Love out of our Attic and dust it off for only a few weeks of the year? Why can't we be kind and loving to one another every day of the year? Why can't we celebrate God, Love and Brotherhood as a way of life? Why do we have to wait for the calendar to turn before we show our Hearts to mankind?

No answers today, just questions, as we prepare to experience yet another brief glimpse of what humanity could be, if we lived in Love every day.

~ g
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