A Thank You Message Written for her Family at Thanksgiving - Diana Del Drago

[Lawrence Robinson]

A Thank You Message Written for her Family at Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, my beloved family. 

As this time of year rolls around and we look at what we're thankful for, 
I'd have to say that what I'm most grateful for is my family. 
We are all here because we are the descendants of something greater than our own lives,
and that is our family's lineage.
We hold our place in a sequence of lives, 
a lineage of people who knew pain and joy, hope and despair, 
who were capable of greatness and generosity, as well as pettiness and spite.
You are the next generations. 
You hold the key to the future and the link to memory. 
You are the living legacy of all the ancestors who have gone before you.
Although much of our history and its players remain unknown to us,
never forget that there is an invisible line of men and women who
stand behind each of you and stretches back through time, farther than we can see.
This moment is the culmination of every thought, action, feeling and 
circumstance of all of their lives added to all of your grandparents' lives,
your parents' lives and now your lives.
In this season of gratitude and remembering, I ask you to take a moment
to consider your place in this lineage, to imagine what the faces must look like
that stand silently behind you, to consider what their dreams may have been and
how you are the answer to their prayers.
Then look forward, to the children who come after you, to their children and beyond.
What would you like to leave as a legacy for them? 
What prayers beat in your heart for them?
For my part, I know that you are the living answers to my prayers. 
On behalf of all of your ancestors may I say, Thank you for choosing us.


	- Diana Del Drago