Brett&#039;s Two Cents

November 21, 2020

Hello everyone! This week as we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving (admittedly, not in the way we all might have hoped!), I’m reminded of how crucial gratitude is for both our relationship with God and with one another.

To be grateful is to acknowledge our need for the other, and to open ourselves to the grace brought by their presence in our lives. St. Thérèse of Lisieux has one of my favorite quotes about gratitude. I offer it for your reflection this week. Enjoy!

“What most attracts God’s grace is gratitude, because if we thank him for a gift, he is touched and hastens to give us ten more, and if we thank him again with the same enthusiasm, what an incalculable multiplication of graces! I have experienced this; try it yourself and you will see! My gratitude for everything he gives me is limitless, and I prove it to him in a thousand ways.”

(from The Way of Trust and Love: A Guided Retreat by St. Thérèse of Lisieux, by Fr. Jacques Philippe)

Looking forward to seeing on Thursday morning those of you who can make it to our Thanksgiving Food Drive (Thru!).