During my now-ending hiatus, I’ve been planning this post.  Or rather, I was planning one much better than this.  That’s because I wanted to do a post that would do justice to the Innocence Project.  But words just aren’t enough to do it justice.  I still plan to do a more extensive post on it in the future, however.

If you have not acquainted yourself with the Innocence Project, do so now.  And by all means, anytime you start feeling as if your situation is really terrible, just give a few minutes thought to what has been endured by those whom the Innocence Project has helped, and what is being endured by those who continue to be wrongly imprisoned.

Then beyond that, consider all the people for whom there is no such advocate as the Innocence Project, who suffer persecution, beyond prosecution. In these current days, when so many people are feeling stressed because of the economic situation, because of having lost big in the stock market, or because of hiring and promotion freezes, or for whatever reason—anyone who still has their home and even some who have lost it, anyone who has a job or two that can pay the bills, it’s important to think about the people served by the Innocence Project, as well as anyone else who fall between the cracks in our society.  Think about them long enough to realize genuine gratitude for what you still have, and long enough to resolve to help those who have less, to whatever extent you can in your current circumstances.

In other words, let’s get started early this season with the gratitude part of the approaching Thanksgiving Day.

Peace.

Deborah Alicen