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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.

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

I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.

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

Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.

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

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

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

The joy of small that makes life large.

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

True saints know that the place where all the joy comes from is far deeper than that of feelings; joy comes from the place of the very presence of God. Joy is God and God is joy and joy doesn't negate all other emotions - joy transcends all other emo...

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

Joy is a flame that glimmers only in the palm of the open and humble hand. In an open and humble palm, released and surrendered to receive, light dances, flickers happy. The moment the hand is clenched tight, fingers all pointing towards self and rig...

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

Time, what God first deemed holy above all else (Genesis 2:3). Thank God for the time, and very God enters that time, presence hallowing it.... I awake to I AM here. When I'm present, I meet I AM, the very presence of a present God. (page 70)

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

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy. (Page 57)

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

It is true, I never stop wanting to learn the hard eucharisteo for deathbeds and dark skies and the prodigal sons. But I accept this is the way to begin, and all hard things come in due time and with practice. Yet now wisps of cheese tell me gentle t...

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

How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. The converse does. (Page 58)

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

Instead of filling with expectations, the joy-filled expect nothing--and are filled.

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

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering the converse does. The brave who focus and all things good and all things beautiful to give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the cha...

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

With memories of gravestones, of combing fingers through tangled hair, I wonder too ... If the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, and our own emptiness, might actually become places to see. To see through to ...

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

I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and t...

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

The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is th...

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

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate 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?

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

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

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