Thanksgiving Thoughts

We give You thanks for You sustain us

with real food and real drink.
You nourish us with friends as real as food
with joy as clear as water
with love as good as this meal.
This is enough .

We do not ask for more.
This is more than enough reason
to bless Your name forever.
Make us always mindful of those
who do not have enough
food and friendship
water and love and joy.
Give them enough
that they too may be thankful
Amen.

- - Mary Jo Leddy, in Radical Gratitude

Thanksgiving Services

Thanksgiving Interfaith Service Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, 7-9 p.m. Presented by Associated Ministries and Christ Episcopal Church 310 North K St. Tacoma, WA 98405 All faiths and congregations are welcome to this year's Thanksgiving Interfaith Service. Experience the religious ceremonies, symbols, sacraments and music of different faith traditions as we join togehter in thanksgiving. A reception will follow the service. For information, call 383-3056, ext. 107, or visit www.associatedministries.org.

Thoughts

The trust to which God calls us is not a timid trust. It is a bold, courageous trust that is written large so that even a passing runner can read it. It is a deep and hearty trust, one that leads us ever closer to God.

- Jan Johnson

The Upper Room Disciplines

Thoughts for November 7

Make me worthy, Lord, to serve you and all the world’s people who live and die in loneliness, hunger, poverty, and sickness. Give them through my hands this day their daily bread, and by my love, give them peace and joy.

- Norman Shawchuck and Rueben P. Job

A Guide to Prayer for All Who Seek God

Thoughts for Nov. 1

May I see today

the largeness of your love

in even the smallest part of creation.

May I be ravished

by traces of your beauty

in earth and sky.

May I experience

the eternity of your grace

pulsing within each moment.

- Sam Hamilton-Poore

Earth Gospel: A Guide to Prayer for God’s Creation

10-Fold Movement

Imagine a movement that mobilizes tens of thousands of people in 10 days.

It is called 10-Fold.

Please click on the link below for more information.
http://www.10-fold.org/

Thought of the Week

Somewhere each day we have to fall in love,
with someone, something, some moment,
event, phrase, word, or sight.
Somehow each day we must allow the softening of the heart.
Otherwise our hearts will move evitably toward hardness.
We will showly become cynical without even knowing it -
that's where too much of the world is trapped.

- - Richard Rohr