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CHRISTMAS
BAZAARS & HOLIDAY EVENTS
CHRISTMAS SHOWCASE
The season to be grateful
By FATHER WILIAM J. BYRON SJ
Catholic News Service
This is the thanks-saying, thanks-doing, thanksgiving season. It begins in late No- vember and runs through Christmas. In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is a secular feast, although many religious congregations mark it with special services and prayers. We would be a better, stronger, happier nation if we lived gratefully with one another every day of the year, not just on Thanksgiving Day. Organized religion can help to make that happen. Gratitude is at the center of all religious observance and thus always part of any faith-focused life. Believers consider themselves to be "much obliged" to give thanks to God and to be grateful to their neighbor as well. Love of neighbor is an expression of love for and gratitude to God. Thoughtful persons are typically grateful for the gift of faith, family, friends and forgiveness. They also are grateful for good health and good fortune, for safety and security, and for the promise that is theirs, in faith, of life everlasting. Not to be grate- ful in this way is to declare oneself to be an ingrate and, not surprisingly, the ingrate is caught in the trap of un- happiness. It is not possible to be si- multaneously grateful and unhappy. So any unhappy person should be encouraged to reflect on the reasons - there are many - that they have to be grateful. An unhappy young person is a person unaware of his or her gifts. Any person can be a person to whom happiness will surely come, if he or she simply chooses to open the door. Similarly, persons who fail to grow old gratefully will be burdened with loneliness and discontent until they no- tice that old age is a gift for which they can be nothing but grateful. So, Thanksgiving season is a good time to take inven- tory of all of one's gifts and blessings. Make a list and keep it within reach for easy referral. Reflection on that list will surely prompt ex- pressions of gratitude. And to the extent that those expressions take the form of a word of thanks or a helping hand to others, hap- piness will spread and the world will indeed become a better place. No one likes an ingrate. The best way to avoid not being liked is to be grate- ful. The larger the supply of gratitude in any family, workplace, community or na- tion, the larger the reach and range of happiness there. Thanksgiving Day provides an annual second start on the road to happiness. Jesuit Father Byron is uni- versity professor of business and society at St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia.
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To create your own pumpkin- floral arrangement you will need a pumpkin, a tin can, fresh flowers and floral tape. Place the tin can, cleaned from any food residue, on top of the pumpkin and trace the circumfer- ence with a marker to create a guide for cutting your pumpkin. This will help ensure that the hole you cut is wide enough for the tin can to be placed inside. Cut the pumpkin following your guide and remove any pulp and seeds as needed. Place the tin can into the hole you have created. The fit should be tight so the pumpkin edges support the can, keeping it from dropping to the inside bottom of the pumpkin. Select your flowers and tape them together using the floral tape. This will secure them in place be- fore you insert them into the can. Fill the can with water to keep them fresh. You may also use floral foam in place of the tape. Insert the foam into the tin can and place your flow- ers to make your arrangement. Be sure to add water. Photo from Pinterest DIY projects, posted from www.homedit.com.
Create a unique centerpiece for your Thanksgiving gathering.
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