Gratefulness and Thanksgiving
Brother David Steindl-Rast has a fascinating column at Beliefnet on the relationship between gratefulness and thankfulness: "Gratefulness is the mystical dimension of gratitude, thankfulness, its theological one." It's a timely article for the Thanksgiving holiday:Heart of Gratefulness: Life is a Gift
Also check out Brother David's website, Gratefulness.org
{While we're on the subject of being "Grateful," here's a site where you can download The Grateful Dead Hour each week.}
I have a lot to be grateful for: wonderful friends and family; a warm and welcoming church, as well as my other communities of faith, the Sufi healing circle and the Atlanta Christian Mysticism Meetup; a career I enjoy; a great new home with a cuddly cat and plenty of books to read; and the transformation of a romantic relationship into a friendship. Lots of reasons to be a Grateful Bear.
What are you grateful for this Thanksgiving weekend?
posted by Darrell Grizzle | 1:15 PM
4 Comments:
I am grateful for all my blog friends and everything that exists.
Thanks for the link....
Happy Thanksgiving to you!
I'm grateful that my parents are alive and well and sharing Thanksgiving we me, my wife, and our daughter.
I am thankful for you and the wonderful wisdom you share.
I am thankful to have had my entire family at my home this Thanksgiving. My father wasn't with us because he died last year. But it was a first to have all of my brothers and sister together at my home. I grately enjoyed having everyone here.
(BTW - I was watching the Grateful Dead Movie while cooking Turkey at insane hours Thanksgiving morning. I had the fantastic idea of cooking it ahead of time. Something which I am very grateful for because it was the first turkey I had ever cooked and it wouldn't have been done until the day after Thanksgiving had I decided to cook it the day of.)
I am grateful for friends like you, for my family, for a roof over my head and food to eat and water to drink and clothes to wear. I am grateful for solitude, for reflection. And I am grateful for laughter.
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