Every day is a holiday - Happy Thanksgiving, USA listeners!

Innate Spirituality: Remembering who we really are

Hi, Laura Pallatin here. Welcome to a The Practically Spiritual Show check in moment. I'll come up with a better name, I swear. Um, today is the fourth Thursday in November, therefore, in the United States, it's Thanksgiving Day. So whoever you're celebrating with, if you're in the United States, I hope that you have a terrific day.
And if you're not in the United States, and this means absolutely nothing to you, I hope you stick around just for a sec, because I think holidays, including Thanksgiving, create a difficult expectation for us sometimes. It's easy for us to get caught up thinking about holidays that have passed and holidays to come.
People who are no longer in our lives, people that we hope will be in our lives next year. And sometimes we fall into a sort of worried spiral about everything not being good enough, not meeting past expectations and, and past, thresholds, right, past standards. So these expectations can become big and they can become very difficult to manage.
Anytime we enter into a situation with very specific expectations, we're kind of setting ourselves up for disappointment, right? Because when we set these expectations, and we live by them, not only are we limiting how marvelous it can be because we've created this threshold, like, this is as good as it's going to be, just like last year!
Or even, I hope that crazy so and so doesn't come and do whatever they did last year, Instead of just opening ourselves up and letting the day flow, meet the people that come right where they are and enjoy their company and share their burdens because that's why we are a family.
And I'm not talking about people that you have blood relations with. Your family is the people who you surround yourselves with, who you choose to be with. So my goal for Thanksgiving is not to make the perfect meal or to set the perfect table, but to set a table that makes everyone that comes through that door feel welcome and loved and then to join everyone in that moment that we're all co creating to have just the best day.
So whether you're celebrating Thanksgiving or not, I hope that you can come to this holiday or any holiday or any day at all and set the table and create the space where people feel safe to be who they are, let the day unfold and don't forget to be who you are because you matter.
So if you're a celebrant in the United States or around the world, happy Thanksgiving. And if not, I hope that you just have the best day and I will see you on Sunday at the podcast.