{"id":3761,"date":"2013-11-27T18:34:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2013-11-27T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:44:12","slug":"thanks-be-for-everyone-day-thirty-of-loveland101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2013\/11\/thanks-be-for-everyone-day-thirty-of-loveland101.html","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Be For Everyone.  Day Thirty of #LoveLand101"},"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\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/305\/2012\/11\/adorable_baby2-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>Thanks God for everything! 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 of you who contribute your 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 your loving thoughts and Thank you for extending that experience of grace through you with each breath you take to all you meet.<\/p>\n<p>In short. 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The book told through a series of letters The Color Purple written by Alice Walker was re-formed as a brilliant movie directed by Steven Spielberg and then into a blockbuster Broadway show. 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 and reminder that no matter what form the expression, the truth that love always remains the answer and that God lives within all things.<\/p>\n<p>Day Thirty of Mel\u2019s #LoveLand101 &#8211; Thanks Be For Everyone and Everything because I am connected and a part of everything I see remains.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em>Melanie Lutz is a screenwriter, author, and visual story teller. For more from Melanie, visit her <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/2012\/09\/love-is-gonna-break-through.html\">Flight of the Soul<\/a><\/strong> blog on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beliefnet<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanielutz.com\" target=\"_blank\">melanielutz.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks God for everything! 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 of you who contribute your time and attention and energies to the spirit of our collective connection. 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