Take a moment to count your blessings… Congratulations! You just got on the right spiritual path.
Radical Gratitude: How the First Beatitude Changed Me
How Jesus’ first blessing proves the first step into joy.
Practice Gratitude for a Healthy Mind and Soul
How to receive the blessings.
Humble Gratitude
How humility deepens gratitude and boosts hope in hard times.
Gratitude and Grief Together at the Table
How to give thanks amid grief.
A Grateful Contemplative
Read about the practice that matters to me most and how it brings me joy.
Frederick Buechner: Putting Color Back in the Cheeks of Grace
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3). A Tribute to Frederick BuechnerOn August 15, 2022, Frederick Buechner died at Rupert, Vermont at age 96. He wrote novels, sermon collections, pithy essays, and moving memoirs with a...
Blessed Poverty and Knowing Christ
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven....Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled (Mt 5:3, 6). Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount – and all his teachings in Matthew, for that matter – with this...
The Kingdom You Had All Along
Searching for something or someone to complete you? You’re surprisingly warm…
Blind Bartimaeus Sees the Light
Can you see this man in yourself?
Why the Bible is the Most Widely Read Book of All Time
How the Bible is more than a book.
The Lord’s Prayer and a Grateful Heart
On the Lord’s Prayer in biblical context and the context of your life.