Late November brings with it the holiday of Thanksgiving; on this holiday, we gather round dinner tables to break bread and honor what we are grateful for. And yet, this time of year is woven, for many, with layers of grief. The late theologian Dr. Ibrahim Baba Farajajé called this time “Thanksgrieving.” Through the act of Thanksgrieving, we temper the gratitude for our blessings with the grief of ongoing and intersecting oppressions, including foremost the dispossession of the Indigenous nations, on whose land we live and gather. Let us gather together this Sunday and break bread in a Thanksgrieving Communion, cradling that which weighs on our hearts, and opening ourselves to greater love.
