Giving Thanks
Thanksgiving is an American holiday, but giving thanks is a practice for everyone, around the world, at all times. Thankfulness – gratitude — is one of the keys to a happy life. As the 14th century mystic Meister Eckhart is often quoted, “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is ‘thank you,’ that will suffice.”
Giving Thanks for Families
We give thanks for families of all shapes and sizes, which provide such an important basis for love and support in our society.
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Giving Thanks as a Life Changing Dynamic
Jesus was not born into a privileged life. He was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth and did not live under easy circumstances. But he still lived in gratitude. In fact he made giving thanks for life a foundational dynamic of his teaching. He seemed surprised by other people's inability to live happy, fulfilling lives with little or no gratitude. "Why do you worry so much about what you eat, what you wear?"
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Giving Thanks for the Good, the Bad and the Surprising
Ian Lawton is pastor of C3/ Christ Community Church in Spring Lake,West Michigan and on the TCPC Executive Coucil. What does it mean to live as if I am surrounded by miracles, even though the kids are fighting, the mortgage is overdue, there seems no end to global conflict and my back hurts? Who should I be grateful to, and for what?
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