Daily Step – Reflection on a Semester of Advanced Gratitude
Back in July, I wrote a post for Ignatian Spirituality on a practice I called “Advanced Gratitude”. Once it published in early August, I re-read it...
December 4, 2024
Daily Step – Practicing a little “Advanced Gratitude”
Will you practice a little advanced gratitude with me? What is it? Well, I don’t know about you, but I have a propensity for starting off...
August 5, 2024
Daily Step – Let gratitude be the light that helps you see God today.
What are you grateful for today? Will you share that list with someone? Every night I ask each of my boys this question, and my response...
November 2, 2022
Daily Step – Do you know what your talents are?
Do you know what your talents are? I guess that seems like a strange question, but honestly… I feel like I spent a lot of time searching...
September 8, 2022
Daily Step – Don’t forget to stand still this week!
I woke up this morning and realized it’s already Wednesday of Thanksgiving week… and, truth be told, I haven’t stood still once. Instead I’ve been cleaning...
November 24, 2021
Daily Step – Let’s start today with gratitude.
It’s Monday morning and I am staring down at a to-do list a mile long. And it’s making me a bit anxious. I’m worried about so...
October 25, 2021
Daily Step – Start today with hi and thank you.
“Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning.” I love this poem by Mary Oliver mostly because it pushes me to change my...
August 13, 2021
Daily Step – Pausing in gratitude for another’s joy.
I am grateful for strawberries. And strawberry jam. And lunchables. These three things have elicited an unexpected tight hug and a “thank you mom” from my...
June 4, 2021
Daily Step – I’m so cold! But grateful!
t’s 24 degrees and falling. In Texas. I know my Northern friends would say “so?” but it’s dang cold for my weak Southern blood. The one...
February 12, 2021
Daily Step – What are you grateful for from 2020?
Tomorrow we say goodbye to 2020. It’s easy to think of all the things that were absolutely terrible about this year. In fact, one of the...
December 30, 2020