Gratitude & Thanksgiving

Our failure to be grateful blocks our happiness. It is important not only to feel thankful, but to also display thankfulness towards our benefactor

Mercy goes further. It means sorrowful at heart. Mercy moves us to do what we can do to help the other. Sharing a reflection by Don Schwager on Luke 17:11-19 which I found so enlightening....

Often, the greatest problem is not our paralysis, our pain, our struggles.  The biggest problems is when we refuse to stand up  for our pain, our rejections, our brokenness. We have gotten so used to our situation, with our coping mechanisms all in place. The Lord wants to enter.   Turn our focus back to Jesus.

As we worship in church, we remember in gratitude, the generations before us, anointing this place of worship. We join our prayers to their.