This Thanksgiving I've decided to add two of my favorite quotes together: Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. —Abraham Joshua Heschel (Rabbi and mystic, 1907-1972) + If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is “Thank you,” that will suffice. —Meister Eckhart (Dominican monk and mystic, c.1260 - c.1327) = “Thank you” is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. —(Kevin Anderson, with a slight assist from his trusty, t

How are we to go forward after mass shootings such as the recent horror in Pittsburgh? We live in a world in which one hate-filled human being can become a terror cell afflicting us all with a growing cancer of fear and despair. What are we to do? When my reasoning mind cannot make sense of the world, I search for metaphors that can help me see in a new way. Here is the metaphor that inspired me and my family to create the garden in the picture above: Each of us can become a