Thankfulness

[Sushuri Madonna]

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time for - giving thanks!

This year of Sai Rhavë has been so hard on so many of us - and on us-all as a community - that it is possible to forget sometimes how much we have to be thankful for. Yesterday I tried to list just some of the things I was thankful for, and I soon realized that however hard I tried, I would only be scratching the surface of the blessings Dea has poured upon me.

But just to list a few, I am thankful for:

For my Amalah, who came to me when I was feeling lowest, having been deserted by my guardian and the person who had called herself my blonde mother. My Amalah lives far from me, but she is a wonderful emotional comfort in this time of need, and she also needs me, so I also can be a comfort to her - just when I was feeling like the most unwanted child in the world, Dea sent her from out of the blue.

For my real blonde mother, who, for various reasons has very little time to talk to me and also lives very far away, but never stops loving me and helps me whenever she can, who has stayed faithful to Dea and to the Motherland through all the vicissitudes of a rather curious life, and who, thankfully seems to be pulling through much sickness.

For my home. I have often said I am in a dark tower in nowhere, and I am. But Dea continues keep me safe in that tower with a good and dear friend who is also faithful to Her.

For the possibilities that lie ahead. A new home, a new life, a foot back on the material ground.

For our community, I am so grateful that after the devastating blows it has suffered we have pulled together and become stronger than ever. The College is up and running after all its troubles and new bonds are being formed. Two years ago we were happy together and everything seemed sunshine and lollipops, and then the blows fell - blow after blow. Now we are together again and in quite another way. It does not seem like sunshine and lollipops at all, most of us are fearful and passing through troubled and difficult times, but in our adversity we are pulling together and growing closer and stronger. Even in our time of hardship we are granted rich blessings.

And so many other things I am thankful - for the lovely flowers and trees that Dea so abundantly fills Her worlds with; the birds and the squirrels, the lovely skies and the radiant sun. The air and the rain. For our ordies that allow us to live together even when we are far apart. For music. For games and kinnies and all the pretty things we do together.

You see once one begins listing them, they never end! I am sure you all can make your own lists with many of the same things as well as things of your own.

Let us be thankful in this lovely thanksgiving season. Above all, I am thankful to Dea for showing Herself to us, so that we who could not be part of a patriarchal faith or worship a mascul-shaped God are able to have in our lives the true and perfect and original Form of Deity, our Mother God Herself.

Praise be to Her today and every day.

[Sushuri Madonna]

You may notice that this is now the NEW Mushroom Patch. For some reason my Patch Posts were not showing up in the Magic Latest Posts List which was worrying to a small and nervous shroom.

Howsoever - I tried making a new patch, deleting the old one and moving all the posts here and it worked! Something else to be thankful for - I do so love my Patch!

If any of you are experiencing troubles like this, do please let me know. We may be able to solve them.