Expressing gratitude each morning has the power to shape our attitude for the rest of the day. In the General Thanksgiving we don’t simply say we’re grateful. We ask God to give us the wisdom to live “with truly thankful hearts,” being grateful “not only with our lips, but in our lives.”

“The Episcopal Church used to be the divider of the weeds and now we need to look for the flowers in the cracks,” she said. “You do not pull out the violets. You water them. Feed them. Fertilize them. Nurture them. … If we could do that, I think we would find our congregations and our structures would be more aligned with how Jesus has intended our garden to grow.”

- Julia Ayala Harris, President of the House of Deputies of The Episcopal Church

“Community not only creates abundance — community IS abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.” - Parker Palmer

“It’s easy to fall into despair, to wonder if we’ve slipped too far to recover our equilibrium. Where do we find hope?”

Please support the people of Uvalde, Texas with your prayers.

The Rev. Barbara Kempf is on Sabbatical through September 2022.

What practices — daily, weekly, or otherwise — center and energize you?