I hope that this Thanksgiving week affords each of us some time to reflect and discern how we can give back, in appreciation for the gifts God affords us. In particular I pray that our common humanity may inspire us to prioritize those in our society in greatest need. As for me, I am most excited about being home after several months filled with much travel; I look forward to the time with my family! Some of our upcoming annual holiday activities will be coordinating our family charitable giving and also designing our ADVENT-ure calendar activities for the month ahead.
“To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else’s hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that ‘ I’m only human ’ does not become an excuse for anything. It means receiving the human condition as blessing and not curse, in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality.” – Brené Brown
Happy Thanksgiving!
Keeping the Faith 