Week of Gratitude (days 6&7)

Week of Gratitude Continues (Day 6) ~ today we celebrate with gratitude one of the most precious gifts.  Ourselves.  Resist the urge to consider this a practice of naval gazing and instead be thankful for your hands, head and heart.  It is with these gifts you are able to alter our world for the good.  Reflect on what it is you bring to each important table.  What gifts to you offer your family?  Your vocation? Your friends? Your community?  Your not-so-friends?  Strangers?  Name each and express gratitude for what you are able to offer.  You need not share them but in this week of gratitude it’s important to name them to ourselves and be grateful.  Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude ~  

Week of Gratitude Completes (Day 7) ~ We culminate this week of Gratitude with an intentional practice of using the words ‘Thank you’ aloud, six times an hour, each waking hour of our day.  Every 10 minutes this single act of gratitude.  It may be ‘thank you, creation’ upon waking.  Thank you to a family member for passing you something at the table, ‘thank you’ while brushing your teeth that you live in a country with such fine dental care, ‘thank you’ to the person handing you coffee at a drive thru, ‘thank you’ to a person offering you some feedback in your workplace (positive or negative), thank you to creation that it rained (or didn’t).  Let this simple but intentional practice offers the possibility that for this day, we will be transformed for the better and through our actions and our interactions with others, the world will be better.  Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude

Look forward to a Week of Service, Dec 25-Dec 31.