In all things...

3 Hard Eucharisteos

Joy Day: continuing to count 1000 gifts

Eucharisteo:

1. To be grateful, to feel thankful

2. Give thanks

Ann describes hard eucharisteo as:  

the hard discipline to lean into the ugly…the hard times… and still be able to give thanks, find joy, find grace.

66.  singleness

67.  estrangement from a favorite aunt

68.  trusting in His plan, even when I don't understand it

As the Ruin Falls

All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.

I never had a selfless thought since I was born.

I am mercenary and self-seeking through and through:

I want God, you, all friends, merely to serve my turn.

Peace, re-assurance, pleasure, are the goals I seek,

I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin:

I talk of love --a scholar's parrot may talk Greek--

But, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.

Only that now you have taught me (but how late) my lack.

I see the chasm. And everything you are was making

My heart into a bridge by which I might get back

From exile, and grow man. And now the bridge is breaking.

For this I bless You as the ruin falls. The pains

You give me are more precious than all other gains.

CS Lewis