Happy Thanksgiving!

I am grateful for those moments

when words fail

when I am humbled

by the realization

that I don’t have all the answers.

I am grateful for every chance to say,

With honesty,

“I don’t know,”

Because it welcomes

An opportunity to learn.

I am grateful for the hands and mouths and minds

That transform the tasks of word-work

into the wonders of word-play,

for days that end not in periods

or exclamation marks,

but with question marks,

or hopefully, with ellipses.

Most of all,
I am grateful for a God 

who guides me toward

A greater understanding

of the extraordinary story 

at the heart

of every one of us.