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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Eucharisteo means 'to give thanks,' and give is a verb, something that we do. God calls me to do thanks. to give the thanks away. That thanks-giving might literally become thanks-living. That our lives become the very blessings we have received. I am...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise o...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

When it gets dark, it's only because god has tucked me in a cleft of the rock and covered me, protected, with His hand? In the pitch, I feel like I'm falling, sense the bridge giving way, God long absent. In the dark, the bridge and my world shakes, ...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a whisper: sometimes we don't fully see that in Christ, because of Christ, through Christ, He does give us all things good - unt...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Eucharisteo has taught me to trust that there is always enough God. He has no end.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

When service is unto people, the bones can grow weary, the frustration deep. Because, agrees Dorothy Sayers, 'whenever man is made the centre of things, he becomes the storm-centre of trouble. The moment you think of serving people, you begin to have...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Who trusts the Bridge Builder when you wake to snow on your blankets and winter blasting through cracked walls and dinner for four is a fifty cent box of Kraft Dinner rationed in half and your dad tells you every single day that he just doesn't know ...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

God holds us in the untamed moments too.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep tru...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard ...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of o...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

He means to rename us--to return us to our true names, our truest selves. He means to heal our soul holes. From the very beginning, that Eden beginning, that has always been and always is, to this day, His secret purpose--our return to 'our full glor...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Communion, by necessity, always leads us into community.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care? P 130

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are