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Meditation Monday – What Will We Give Thanks For?
It is only a couple of days until American Thanksgiving, and like so many I am getting ready for a feast. I have so much to be grateful for and I look forward to sharing this with friends. My...
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Advent garden – Week 1 Gratitude
Some of you may remember that last year I started an Advent garden. I found it such a stimulus to my daily meditations that I encouraged you to join me in the practice this year. I have replanted the...
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My Favourite Thanksgiving Prayers
I have been posting thanksgiving prayers and quotes on the Light for the Journey Facebook page all week and thought that you might enjoy some of my favourites. Don’t forget to check out my...
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Important Tips for Coping With Abundance
Tom and I returned from our Celtic retreat on Sunday to a garden bursting with abundance. I immediately went out and picked over 40lb tomatoes and several squash. At least the same quantity will ripen...
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Harvest Prayers and Resources
Here in the Pacific NW it is harvest season. A couple of weeks ago I held an apple party to help me cope with the overwhelming harvest from our three small trees. This last weekend I was in Surrey...
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A Thanksgiving Prayer
by Christine Sine It is almost Thanksgiving here in the U.S. This is a celebration that I have embraced with enthusiasm as an opportunity to think about all that I have to be grateful for. In fact a...
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Meditation Monday – The Power of Gratitude
by Christine Sine Over the last few months, Tom and I have been reading The Gratitude Diaries together. The author Janice tells of her year long experiment with gratitude. She took a different shares...
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Freerange Friday: Praying in the Everyday with the Laundry
by Lilly Lewin — The Celtic Christians prayed along the way…they prayed as they got up in the morning and rekindled the fire, they prayed as they went out the door to work, they prayed for family...
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Let Us Give Thanks Today
by Christine Sine. As American Thanksgiving approaches, my heart is filled with gratitude for the many blessings of my life. I think of those who have no food or shelter at this time and I am grateful...
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10 Tips For Expressing Gratitude
by Christine Sine Sue Duby, a colleague of mine on board the mercy ship M/V Anastasis, once told me that she was most content when her heart was smiling with gratitude, as she focused on the moment...
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by Christine Sine Tom and I have just returned from celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving with good friends in Tsawwassen B.C. It was a wonderful weekend of feasting, fellowship and reminiscing. Gratitude...
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Freerange Friday: Considering the Celebration
by Lilly Lewin JOHN 2: 1-12 NIV On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was...
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Freerange Friday: Good News and Gratitude
By Lilly Lewin Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 The Message...
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Freerange Friday: Preparing for Thanksgiving
By Lilly Lewin Just a couple of weeks away from Thanksgiving here in the States and I wanted to introduce you to a few ideas you might try around your table this holiday. A friend of mine brought up...
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Thanksgiving Prayers and Resources
by Christine Sine Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the U.S. This is a celebration that I have embraced with enthusiasm as an opportunity to think about all that I have to be grateful for. In fact a few...
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By Steve Wickham — March 2004. It was five months to the day when I discovered the way to a transient hope that would stay with me as much as I practiced it. Through it came peace, which quickened me...
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Every New Morning
By Carol Dixon — Photo by Hannah Walden (aged 14) God gives us freely hearts that are thankful, strength for the task, people who love us, joy in our service, all we have need of if we but ask. God...
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The Other Side of the Story
By Sue Duby — Buried under hanging jackets, Chuck and I wiggled to make room for each other in our tiny “safe place” closet under the stairwell. With a small blanket tucked underneath us as a barrier...
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Thankfulness in Imaginary Worlds
By Lynne Baab — My older son turns 40 in a few weeks, and I’ve battled insomnia since I was pregnant with him. Thankfully, “battled” is no longer the correct word. In the past decade or so, I have...
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A Prayer for Gratitude
By Talitha Fraser — In these troubled times it can seem that there is more that separates us than connects us, a fear of the future that invites apathy and hopelessness, pain and a burden of worry that...
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