Giving Thanks
- Kinship
- Nov 26, 2025
- 2 min read
Looking backward into 2025 we see many reasons to give “thanks”. We are grateful for SDA Kinships safe and welcoming environment. This provides our rainbow friends a warm group to join and enrich themselves and their family members also join a warm and welcoming group of new friends and allies to enrich their daily lives. Friendly communities are very valuable in today’s world that tends to judge and criticize any activities they don’t care to understand and accept. Friendships and acceptance was the key message Jesus shared broadly.
Also we appreciate all the Kinship members who continue to enrich and enhance the groups they support and participate with. Every time one of us listens and supports another person’s journey they personally appreciate your desire to understand and connect. John carries a friend’s coin in his pocket and often read’s it’s meaningful message - “We all leave indelible fingerprints on people we meet each day” and hopefully they are appreciative prints.
Whenever Carolyn and I recognize another person’s accepting outreach to someone else we need to comment directly to them and give “thanks” for their positive support. Recognition is a positive and proper action to give thanks to someone else and definitely leaves healthy fingerprints on them. As Board member’s we read many positive internet comments as our members around the world continue to enrich and broaden their local communities.
Kinship may legally exist within the USA as a non-profit organization but our goals, desires and activities are needed around the world. We lovingly acknowledge all the caring leaders and organizers in South America, Europe, Australia/New Zealand and Africa as they volunteer their energies and leadership to create and maintain healthy and accepting communities. Every kinship member comes from a family and those families and friends need a safe and understanding community to feel comfortable in also.
So Carolyn and I in deep gratitude thank Kinship and it’s wonderful members as we all work together to help rainbow families understand, connect and support each other. As you read our message you may wonder why some words are “bolded”. Every bolded word is a way to “give thanks” and Carolyn and I are deeply thankful for SDA Kinship and it’s purposes.
The opposite of “thanks” is blaming, criticizing, unappreciative, ungrateful and even cruel. Your kinship leadership is none of that and hopefully, all kinship members and participants also appreciate being thankful.
Let’s continue to share “being thankful” and continue enriching our worldwide rainbow communities.
Carolyn & John Wilt
Kinship Families & Friends
