Just read your Thanksgiving Day post in Patheos and appreciate your ‘franchise’ as they say here in Quebec. Of course, our celebration of the event happened last month as is the tradition here. Thanks for writing.
I guess the generic nature of your prayer allows anyone to join in, of whatever cloth their own ‘spiritual’ being is cut. And yet, I have to wonder at the exercise as carried on around your own table. It definitely sounds religious in nature, since, as I think, thanks unaddressed in this context fits in so naturally to a God context, don’t they? Especially when you are saying thanks ‘for’ as you go round the table and not thanks ‘to’. My spiritual background automatically fills in what it perceives as the blank. Gratitude which has no referent still seems a bit cold and begs a question or two.
A very Happy Thanksgiving, Kate! Glad you’re friendly 🙂
Mac Wigfield, Lévis Quebec
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I guess the generic nature of your prayer allows anyone to join in, of whatever cloth their own ‘spiritual’ being is cut. And yet, I have to wonder at the exercise as carried on around your own table. It definitely sounds religious in nature, since, as I think, thanks unaddressed in this context fits in so naturally to a God context, don’t they? Especially when you are saying thanks ‘for’ as you go round the table and not thanks ‘to’. My spiritual background automatically fills in what it perceives as the blank. Gratitude which has no referent still seems a bit cold and begs a question or two.
A very Happy Thanksgiving, Kate! Glad you’re friendly 🙂
Mac Wigfield, Lévis Quebec
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