Today’s Miracle Moment Is About The Miracle of Giving Thanks…
In the US, Thanksgiving is coming up, and in Canada, people celebrated Thanksgiving last month. And all sorts of holidays around the world are happening this season. This is a great time where we’re in a collective vibrational frequency of gratitude and celebration.
I love Thanksgiving because the collective consciousness is focused on Gratitude and Gratitude is one of the highest vibrations we can tune into. Giving thanks helps us become a vibrational match for miracles.
As we get closer to the end of the year, it’s really powerful to be in gratitude, as this helps set us up for an even more miraculous year ahead.
Even though Thanksgiving is supposed to be focused on giving thanks, that can be hard. It’s a time for family gatherings and not everyone is excited to go to family gatherings – there can be unhealed stuff between family members, triggers, or that family members who has that rare gift of saying things that make everyone else uncomfortable. It’s like that quote by Ram Dass that says,
“If you think you’re enlightened, spend a week with your family.”
Giving thanks is powerful because what you put your attention on grows stronger. When you put your attention on what you appreciate, you get more of that. What you appreciate, appreciates. When your attention is on what you’re grateful for, you start noticing more and more of that. And, the people in your life naturally blossom when they’re seen in that light of gratitude and appreciation.
On the other hand, when you put your attention on what you judge, you get more of that. if you’re focusing on what drives you crazy about someone, that’s all you start to notice about them.
Giving thanks and appreciation for the people in your life is a gift for you and the people in your life because it shifts the energy between you to a higher vibration.
Here’s a great way to really apply the principle of giving thanks during your Thanksgiving or holiday gathering with family and friends. It’s called the Appreciation Feast.
This can shift your energy and your whole family’s energy:
I have been doing this with my family at Thanksgiving for 20 years. On Thanksgiving, we feast on a lot of food, but it’s this feast that has made my recent Thanksgivings awesome.
We go around the table and appreciate one thing about each person at the table.
The first year we did this, we started with my Mom. I said, “Mom, something I appreciate about you is how generous you are.” Then the next person said they appreciated how funny she was. By the end of the appreciations, she was in tears. Then we moved to the next person.
To do this, you go around the entire table one person at a time until each person is appreciated by everyone. This is such a feast!
Maybe you think – I don’t know if my family would ever want to do that. Well, you won’t know if you don’t try. And if you start things off by expressing your appreciation for one family member, soon, everyone else will want to chime in and get involved.
And if you’re not able to get together in person, you can even do an Appreciation Feast over Zoom or video calls.
If you want to capture this, remember to record it via video. I promise when those people are gone, you’re going to treasure that video!
One little tip…the first year we did our appreciation feast before the meal, while the meal was getting cold. So, we suggest you do your appreciation feast after the meal and before dessert instead.
This is a sure way to have a most heart-opening experience of Thanksgiving.
So, you can start the Appreciation Feast in the comments – what or who are you thankful for in your life? Let’s all be in this miraculous energy of gratitude together. And I’ll leave you with this quote from Meister Eckhart:
“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”
I’m wishing you a beautiful holiday season and beyond, and sending you my love!
This advice!!!
YES THIS ADVICE!!!!!
I appreciate all of my YOM family!
Thanks to everyone from the YOM family! Grateful to have people like you as part of the collective, Linda! Much love.
Thanks William for always being there and supporting others!
Hope it’s helpful in your miraculous journey, Carol!
I thank God for my health, job, peace, financial standing, and protection. The ability to give. It is nice to have an imagination to wonder in during my times of boredom. Thank God for the election and the rightful placement of God of the Universe in our society. We fight spiritual wickedness in high places and God give us the strength to win the fight.
Im so grateful for being alive, for opening my eyes today, for enjoying every moment of my life. Every moment is a miracle, it’s a incredible experience and opportunity to learn and be better.
Beautifully said, Sylvie! Agreed that every moment is indeed a miracle. More miracles to you!
Hi, S.Joyce!
Those are some wonderful blessings. Hope you have an amazing and miraculous Thanksgiving weekend!
Very much thankful for God’s love, salvation, grace, and different kinds of blessings in my life and family, and the people he has placed around my life.
That’s beautiful, Clarissa! More miracles to you.
thank you for the reminder of gratitude as always i feel so grateful for you and dr Sue and I appreciate your ooutlook on life and dedication and how you sparkle as you talk to us
Thank you so much for your kind words, Marielle! I hope you carry this reminder through the upcoming holiday season and have a wonderful time. Much love!
What a great idea🌵.
Thank you Marci for sharing a wonderful way to bring people/Families back together.
You’re welcome, Glennda! If you try out the Appreciation Feast with your loved ones this Thanksgiving, let us know how it goes. More miracles to you.
I want to THANK YOU, dear Marci, for your huge generosity, great advice and all the love you send out ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ You are awesome! Love and blessings 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟from Annelise
Thank you so much for those generous and kind words, Annelise! They mean a lot. Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
I am so appreciative of Marci, my YOM group and all that I have learned this year. I am also appreciative of my Doodle Abbey, who turns 8 today. I am grateful my book has been translated into Spanish, and the Kindle version is now on Amazon, and soon the paperback will be also. I am grateful my house stayed strong and together through the three hurricanes. I am thankful for the generosity of so many people. I am thankful for friends and family. I am thankful for being healthy, healed and whole from top to bottom, inside and out in body, mind and soul.
All such amazing blessings, Susan! Thanks for sharing them with us and being part of the YOM family. I am grateful to you all and wish you a wonderful and miraculous Thanksgiving season.
Gratitude for all my abundance in so many things. That despite very heavy rain, we have been spared from flooding. Also, for the opportunity to connect with & gift someone who has not been in my life for several years. Blessings to all who read the comments.
Joy
Hi, Joy!
I love the fact that you are sending your positive vibes to all those who read. I know our collective vibrational frequency, even in the comments, is higher because of such a generous act. More miracles to you!
So beautiful Marci, Whenever I watch your videos my entire home fills with Light! Thank you! I am grateful for you!
I am grateful for my family, my friends, my home in the mountains, my young Golden Retriever, my lovely garden, my spiritual path, and all the Enlightened Masters I have had the honor of meeting.
I am truly grateful for my life of spiritual awakening and all the many miracles that bless my path!
Wow! That’s a beautiful visual, Patricia. Thank you for sharing your blessings with us. Hope your Thanksgiving weekend is full of light, laughter and miracles abound!
I am so thankful that I found your year of miracles. The people in it have given me a new lease on life. Truly, I am blessed.
Aww, Betsy! Thank YOU for being part of our YOM family and adding to the positive vibrational frequency as we carry out our miraculous journey together. Much love!
Every day I bask in appreciation for having a full balanced life . I am at peace with my past, content with the present and excited about the future. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Beautifully worded affirmation, Marie! I bet many who read the comments would like to add it to their gratitude practice. Thank you for sharing and I wish you a miraculous Thanksgiving!
I am grateful for being a part of this lovely, sacred and transformational family of loving, miracle conscious beings of love and light
Thank you for being part of the YOM community, Regina! More miracles to you.
I am thankful to God who has allowed me to come into this world and experience life. Thankful for my loving parents, sisters, husband, my boys and our little dog. Having my family and my network of friends is truly a blessing.
These are truly wonderful blessings, Jenneese! Thanks for sharing them with us. Much love.
I am thankful for my friends and family especially my bonus son – I am also grateful for the home I have to live in and my husband who built it and was instrumental in rebuilding it after an arson destroyed it.
I am thankful to know that this life is a short moment in our eternal existence and the relations and sociality we have in this life we will have eternally .
I’m thankful for my friend and savior Jesus Christ.
Thank you for sharing with us those amazing and miraculous blessings you were graced with, Bethany! More miracles to you.
Thank you Marci for your Thanksgiving message. I am thankful for the
YOMies, and the prayer that being thankful is enough.
HAPPY, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, TURKEY DAY Y’ALL.
So grateful to you for being part of the YOM family, Nina. Have a happy and miraculous Thanksgiving!
I’m so grateful for life! Life in the garden, life in the birds flying through, life in the trees that shed their leaves and grow them again in the spring. Life in my body, life in my eyes that see so much beauty! Life!
Wow! Thank you for sharing with us the picturesque beauty you experience, Jannelle! More miracles to you.
I am a cancer survivor. I try to wake grateful everyday for my life. You start living more deeply when you have stared down death. I feel so blessed by this life and my Yom family!
Hi Carol,
Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing your inspiring story with us. More miracles to you!
Since there will be 17 of us I think what I’ll do is tell them each individually in a conversation. But I absolutely love this idea and already I’m thinking of things to tell them, thank you!
Claudette Gregg; I am so grateful that despite my broken leg I did get to go to Africa to see my beloved baby orphan elephants. I was able to continue to adopt my 2 girl elephants who are not quite 3 years and see my precious baby bull of now 10 mos who is healthy and energtic. I have just returned and they are my passionate gratitudes! I am grateful to find Marcie’s articles today as a thanksgiving gift and to be inspired by the comments of others.Blessings and Namaste.
Claudette Gregg; I am so grateful that despite my broken leg I did get to go to Africa to see my beloved baby orphan elephants. I was able to continue to adopt my 2 girl elephants who are not quite 3 years and see my precious baby bull of now 10 mos who is healthy and energtic. I have just returned and they are my passionate gratitudes! I am grateful to find Marcie’s articles today as a thanksgiving gift and to be inspired by the comments of others.Blessings and Namaste.