Heading into next week, I am happy to share this below reflection on the notion of gratitude, along with the sunrise image from my morning walk today. I am grateful that next week I will be on vacation with my family, at a nearby beach town that has become one of our favorite get-away spots. We will benefit from the quality time together and the active time outdoors. Blessings on your weeks ahead and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
The Gospel calls us to embrace gratitude as a practice to realize the presence of God’s love in the simplest and most ordinary aspects of our lives, to trust that there is always reason to rejoice and hope despite our sadness and anxieties.
Gratitude rooted in faith transforms cynicism and despair into optimism and hope.
To embrace Christ’s spirit of gratitude opens our ears and hearts to the love of God, making whatever good we do into experiences of grace.
And this grace makes us “whole” and “clean” and filled with Christ’s hope and compassion.
-Deacon Jay Cormier
Keeping the Faith 