Ministry Appropriating Issues on Responses to Life and Vocations: Gratefulness

Saturday, March 15, 2014

FEELING VERY GRATEFUL!

FEELING GRATITUDE AND NOT EXPRESSING IT

IS LIKE WRAPPING A PRESENT

AND NOT GIVING IT.
-WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD-

Have we thanked God today?

"OUR DEEPEST CALLING IS TO GROW

INTO OUR AUTHENTIC SELVES..."

that is to say,

OUR REAL VOCATION IN LIFE

is "TO BE IN THE PLACE"

where "OUR DEEP GLADNESS"

meets the "WORLD'S NEEDS."

-Frederick Buechner-

"Clear our heart, O God,

that we may see you.

Clear our heart, O God

that we may truly see ourselves.

Clear our heart, O God,

that we may see the sacredness

of this moment and in every moment.

Seek you, serve you and strengthen you

as a Living Presence in every presence.

Clear our heart, O God, that we may see."

-John Phillip Newell, PRAYING WITH THE EARTH: A PRAYER BOOK FOR PEACE