In an age of growing economic inequality, it is tempting to pay attention to what others have. Perhaps we would do better to attend to what we already have, even beyond our deserving. Thanksgiving season is surely a good time to strip away any sense of entitlement we may harbor, and shift our attention to gratitude.

John Buehrens served as UUA President, 1993-2001, and as Senior Minister of First UU in San Francisco before retiring in 2017. He is the author or co-author of six books on progressive religion, with a seventh, on the Transcendentalists as social activists, due out in January.

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