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Worship Service Message JCC 112220 Gratitude for Next Chances from architect on Vimeo. PRAYER of THANKSGIVING by Howard Thurman Note: Thanks to Maren Tirabassi for posting this on her Facebook page. We shared it and reflected on it during two worship services. Prayer of Thanksgiving by Howard Thurman, 1899–1981 Today, I make my Sacrament of […]
Give thanks for what is old. Appreciate what has matured and seasoned. Take notice of lives and perspectives made venerable through insight and experience. Focus on an object, an artifact, whose purpose has become obscure or obsolete, but which is beautiful for its own sake, as a work of engineering and art. Appreciate an antique […]
Appreciate what rises. What goes up. What climbs. The sun breaks over the horizon as it starts the day. People, in their efforts to achieve things, often rise. Sometimes the ascent is its own journey, sometimes it’s the path that leads to a goal or destination. Sap rises. Birds and plans take off, balloons go […]
Give thanks for what falls. We crush underfoot the acorns that land in our paths, or kick them aside as fodder for wild creatures. We press bruised apples, shaken from their limbs, into cider. We pause in wonder at the rushing torrents that cascade as waterfalls, dropping dramatically, tumultuously, to the river below. Our own […]
Let us give thanks for other living creatures that aren’t human. For animals and birds, insects and reptiles. Let us recognize our connection to the whole living world, and the intricate relationships human societies have with ecosystems and habitats. What happens to other living creatures also affects us. Some animals are domesticated. Pets, for […]
