An Intentional Practice of Thanksgiving for Your Feast Week

Today, and in the middle of this Holiday week, I’m continuing an examination of gratitude.

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"In prayer itself there is no fixed order, but both a primary impulse and the experience of praying people show us that the first stage may be thanksgiving ..." ~George Buttrick, excerpted from Devotional Classics, a Renovaré resource for spiritual renewal.

The world around us thrashes forward in its nervous, unending, apocalyptic act of striving. It struggles for more, pushes the people to engage in...