Thoughts on the Power of the Subconscious/Thanksgiving Day

        
Today didn’t go as planned.  The game plan was to share the holiday with my husband’s family and extended family and who knows who else.  The celebration was held at the summer refuge out in the country.  This wasn’t my idea of Thanksgiving, way too many people and too much commotion for my taste.  I suggested every alternative way to celebrate I could think of.  “Thanksgiving is for being with family,” he kept saying to me, and in my heart of hearts I knew he was right.  So I decided to put on my big girl panties, suck it up, and go without complaining. 

        
I woke this morning, grateful for the beautiful weather, grateful for health, and grateful for all the blessings bestowed on me daily.  I watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on T.V.  We headed out the door without any whining from me.  As we locked the door I asked, “Are you sure you remember how to get there?”

        To make a long story short, there were many changes in the area and all the landmarks we remembered were changed or gone.  We rode in the area for 3 hours (trying to remember phone numbers, people to call, etc), knowing we were in the neighborhood, but never finding the turn off.  I finally said, “I’ve been very patient and haven’t complained at all, but I’m starting to get cranky.”

        We headed toward home.  We stopped at a restaurant and had our Thanksgiving dinner served to us with no clean up or dishes to wash.  I was very content.  Once my hubby relaxed (and calmed down) we had a nice time.  We enjoyed one another’s company.

        It winds up that we passed the driveway several times & were only 100 feet from where we needed to be.  I pondered on this.  I really, really didn’t want to be part of that Thanksgiving fray….I had been saying that aloud and to myself for 2 weeks.  Had I used “The Secret” to get what I wanted?  Had I visualized myself somewhere else so much that it worked?  Had I repeated it so often that it worked like a backward affirmation (not getting something I didn’t want rather than getting something I did want)?  Or did the Goddess just feel that I needed a break?

        
Hmmm….maybe I need to use this effort and energy (that I put into not doing something) into a more productive and positive outcome.  I need to be more conscious and focused with my thoughts and affirmations!!! 

        So I ask Mother Sophia (using the words of Abby Willowroot):

Make me strong in spirit
Courageous in action
Gentle of heart
Let me act in wisdom
Conquer my fear and doubt
Discover my own hidden gifts
Meet others with compassion
Be a source of healing energies
And face each day with hope and joy

        Happy Thanksgiving!