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Graduating with Gratitude

May 24, 2023 By Tim Gavin Leave a Comment

Each year as I prepare my sermon for the baccalaureate Eucharist service, I discern which kernels of wisdom I may offer to prepare them for a world of division, plagues, war, political upheaval, and godlessness. I wonder what they will take with them along with their diplomas and Bibles as they graduate and leave chapel.

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Expanding Our View of Gratitude

November 24, 2022 By Tim Gavin Leave a Comment

The Stripes are core values in the form of positive rules.

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Filed Under: Prayer Tagged With: Episcopal Schools, gratitude, school, Thanksgiving

Ordinary, unknown, but remembered

October 28, 2021 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

Saint Simon and Saint. Jude *sound* familiar, but beyond associating the latter with St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, most of us can’t tell you much about either.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Feast Days, gratitude, St. Jude, St. Simon

Thankfulness and Gratitude

November 26, 2020 By Allison Sandlin Liles Leave a Comment

Like everything else during coronatide, Thanksgiving is a day filled with tough choices.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Building Faith, coronavirus, gratitude, thankfulness, Thanksgiving

Prayer Pumpkins

October 1, 2020 By Emily Gowdy Canady 3 Comments

Some days it’s hard for me to think about the last 24 months or so. I have gone from being an 18-month plan-ahead kind of person to a taking-it-one-day-at-a- time kind of person.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Prayer, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: children, gratitude, Holidays, Prayer, spiritual practice, thankfulness

I’m Sorry, Thank You, and the Mystery of Grace

May 6, 2020 By Kit Lonergan 8 Comments

Every email to my children’s teachers the first three weeks of quarantine began with an apology.

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices Tagged With: coronavirus, grace, gratitude, humility, Prayer, thankfulness

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale’s Unprecedented Gratitude

April 30, 2020 By Emily Gowdy Canady Leave a Comment

Our family likes to celebrate and decorate for just about every holiday.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, coronavirus, godparents, gratitude, Holidays, poetry, Thanksgiving

Our Thank You Pumpkin

November 19, 2018 By Laura Shaver 6 Comments

Starting on November 1, we take turns writing one thing we are each thankful for in a black Sharpie marker on our pumpkin. This designated pumpkin sits in the center of our dinner table throughout the month of November. It always brings joy and quite a bit of laughter to hear what our boys are thinking about or to see what they quietly and sneakily write on the pumpkin.

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Joyful and Ambivalent: Gift-Giving at Christmastime

December 15, 2017 By Sara Irwin 1 Comment

I want to give my children gifts, but I don’t want them to confuse the fun of getting stuff with real joy.

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Pausing in the Open Space – and Giving Thanks

November 22, 2017 By Sara Irwin 1 Comment

I have taken a break from the myth of my own indispensability.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: gratitude, rest, Sabbath, Thanksgiving

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