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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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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

Cooked with Love: A Legacy of Thanksgiving Traditions

November 15, 2017 By Miriam McKenney Leave a Comment

Mom cooked a huge Thanksgiving meal each year – and I never got why. Until, that is, we had to celebrate Thanksgiving without her.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Bible, Exodus, Family, food, love, Prayer, teens, thankfulness, Thanksgiving

Practicing thankfulness and forgiveness with teens

May 17, 2017 By Miriam McKenney 2 Comments

How do you teach your kids and teens to be thankful? How do you practice forgiveness? I’ve find practicing forgiveness and thankfulness much like choir or cello practice. It takes a lot of work, and the work never seems to end. And I don’t just mean for our kids.

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