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Daily discipline is the door to full freedom, and the discipline to count to one thousand gave way to the freedom of wonder and I can't imagine not staying awake to God in the moment, the joy in the now.

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

This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.

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

They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which ...

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

Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of a...

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

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

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

Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.

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

That is what a shadow is, an empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is that - a hole in the goodness of God. Evil is all that lacks the goodness of God, a willful choice to turn away from the full goodness of God to that empty of His goodness. All Go...

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

Faith is in the gaze of a soul.

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

The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible.

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

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror.

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

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

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

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?

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

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

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

We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'.

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

I speak the unseen into seeing and I can feel it, this steady breathing in the rhythm of grace--'give thanks (in), give thanks (out)'.

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

When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? for us? The clouds ope...

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

If the heights of our joy are measured by the depths of our gratitude, and gratitude is but a way of seeing, a spiritual perspective of smallness might offer a vital way of seeing especially conducive to gratitude

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

...this counting blessings was the unlocking of the mystery of joy, joy, "the gigantic secret of the Christian," joy hiding in gratitude ... God had used the dare to give me this; led me all he way to give me this, live fully, fully live. Page 83

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