Cultivate gratitude each day this month.
Day 16: Grateful for Grace
- Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:9 — My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.
- Meditation: In what way has vulnerability become a channel that builds up your strength and resilience? In a sense, grace is love that shows up for you, whether or not you deserve it or earn it. Often it shows up when you don’t think you’re worthy of kindness and compassion. When have you allowed yourself to need and receive support and help? How have you experienced grace, when you were in need of hope and healing, and it was made available to you, in spite of yourself? What moments of grace have humbled you and changed your heart and mind?
- Spiritual Practice: To whom have you been able to show grace, by giving compassion and kindess and love when it wasn’t earned or requested? What made this possible? Whom do you need to thank for daily moments of grace given to you?
SONGS:
- Amazing Grace by Alan Jackson: https://youtu.be/ogxLNlgKM8c?si=026mDJF2bIXDuzZo
- A Moment Like This by Kelly Clarkson: https://youtu.be/S7b8ADhadJU?si=hzi_f_WcKkLbrhN5
- Call It Grace by Unspoken: https://youtu.be/AAMU68NTVQw?si=W5gw2Ckw865MiLoz
Blessing — John O’O’Donohue
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.
As the wind loves to call things to dance,
May your gravity be lightened by grace.
Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,
May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.
As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.
As silence smiles on the other side of what’s said,
May your sense of irony bring perspective.
As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names.
May your prayer of listening deepen enough
to hear in the depths the laughter of God.
GRATITUDE Daily Devotional: Nov 16