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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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Filed Under: Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: fall, gratitude, Thanksgiving

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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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Christmas, generosity, gifts, gratitude

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

Giving thanks is no small thing. It requires a conversion of heart.

November 16, 2017 By Benjamin Gildas Leave a Comment

We want to give our children the world! So often what we end up giving them is continued complicity in the world’s model of desire and scarcity. Our faith teaches something better.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: children, Children in church, Family, gratitude, Holidays, Holy Eucharist, thankfulness, Thanksgiving, young children

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