{"id":2172,"date":"2012-11-21T01:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T01:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2012-11-22T18:57:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T18:57:52","slug":"day-thirty-forever-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2012\/11\/day-thirty-forever-thankful.html","title":{"rendered":"Day Thirty &#8211; Forever Thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/files\/2012\/11\/adorable_baby2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2212 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/305\/2012\/11\/adorable_baby2-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>Thanks God for everything!\u00a0\u00a0 As Meister Eckhart says <em>\u201cIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks be for everyone, everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to all who contribute their time and attention and energies to the spirit of our collective connection.<\/p>\n<p>The gifts you have so graciously given are deeply appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for all\u00a0your loving thoughts and Thank you for extending that experience of grace through you with each breath you take.<\/p>\n<p>In short.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>May Love land in the deepest spaces of your truest self and may the lightest touch of peace awaken all to your call.<\/p>\n<p>With infinite Love and Gratitude\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Melanie<\/p>\n<p>The book told through a series of letters The Color Purple written by Alice Walker was reformed as a brilliant movie directed by Steven Spielberg and then into a blockbuster Broadway show.\u00a0 The book starts with the lead character writing a letter to a God outside of herself not understanding why God is not listening to her and moves through a beautiful story of the birth of a soul, ending with a letter to a God within her, and everything she sees, marking the shift in her faith and deeper understanding of the mystery of source.<\/p>\n<p>This idea is powerfully translated in the below song from Broadway Show.<\/p>\n<address>&#8220;Dear God, Dear Stars, Dear Trees, Dear Sky, Dear People, Dear Everything&#8230;. Dear God.<\/address>\n<address>God is inside of me and everything else, that was or ever will be.&#8221;<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>Enjoy this clip from the Oprah show&#8230;.<\/address>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Renee performs with the cast of the Color Purple\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJ5nh7qNxk4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Thanks for the inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Day Thirty of Mel\u2019s 100 days of Love and Inspiration.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em>Melanie Lutz is a screenwriter, author, and poet. For more from Melanie, visit her\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/2012\/09\/love-is-gonna-break-through.html\">Flight of the Soul<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0blog on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beliefnet<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks God for everything!\u00a0\u00a0 As Meister Eckhart says \u201cIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.\u201d Thanks be for everyone, everywhere. Thank you to all who contribute their time and attention and energies to the spirit of our collective connection. 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