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Day 29: Grateful for Spiritual Gifts Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:4-7: Now there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit, 5 and there are varieties of services but the same Lord, 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation […]
Day 28: Gratitude for the Journey Scripture: Psalm 118:24 ( — This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Meditation: From the moment we arrive in the world, we are on a journey. Until we depart this world, we are traveling through a human, embodied experience. […]
My WORK is LOVING the WORLD — Mary Oliver My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird – equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young […]
Highlights: Thanksgiving meals, Advent starts with theme of hope, first Advent candle lit, tree festival, Santa arrives in Jxn, carol with DaCapo, Christmas tree lighting, sleigh rides, church holiday decorating begins, music around town and more! WED, Nov 23 THURS, Nov 24: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY FRI, Nov 25 SAT, Nov 26 SUN, Nov 27 – ADVENT […]
Not for victory,but for the day’s work doneas well as I was able;not for a seat upon the daisbut at the common table.— Charles Reznikoff, excerpt from poem: Te Deum Eating with the fullest pleasure – pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance – is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with […]
