{"id":64559,"date":"2021-11-25T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=64559"},"modified":"2021-11-25T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T04:57:09","slug":"off-the-pulpit-a-thanksgiving-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-a-thanksgiving-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: A Thanksgiving Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

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With each challenge and difficulty that arises in the day, I try to be mindful that things that seem unbearable now may later be important; I\u2019ve lived long enough to remember how we treasure people and things in retrospect. Even moments we wish would end can leave us with a taste that we savor.<\/p>\n

To be grateful is not to be na\u00efve; to be grateful is not to be unable to confront deficiency or injustice or anguish. It is to recognize how abundant are the blessings of this world and how easy to overlook. It is to say, with the poet Yeats, in a moment of open-armed embrace of life: \u201cWe must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

(Rabbi David Wolpe is the senior rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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