A Blog post by Roberta Egli As I approach celebrating Thanksgiving this year, I am struggling a bit. I received a diagnosis of Breast Cancer over the Labor Day weekend. For myself this fall has been filled with Dr’s appointments, and a surgery to remove the cancer a month ago. For the past month, I […]
Give Thanks
“Gratitude gives birth to joy because gratitude teaches us to receive life as a gift in the moment we’re in.” Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night I give thanks this week for the gift of this particular moment. I began this day with a zoom call with my colleague, Johannah Myers who lives 3000 miles […]
Happy Thanksgiving…it’s complicated
The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live…At this table we sing with joy, with sorry. We pray of suffering and remorse. We give thanks… Joy HarjoExcerpt from Perhaps the World Ends Here Celebrate and honor the complexity this Thanksgiving As I prepare to gather around a table […]
Overflowing in Thanks
Live your lives in Christ Jesus the Lord in the same way you received him. Be rooted and built up in the way of Jesus, established in the faith as you are taught, overflowing in thanksgiving. Colossians 2:6-7 NRSV (adapted) A Moment to give thanks My heart was overflowing with thanksgiving as I looked out […]