Grateful Offerings

June 2024

Rejoice and Play

Depending on one’s cultural context or childhood, play can feel scary and burdensome. However, cultivating play is important to our well-being because it is our creative expression of joy. If you are struggling to find joy, then make space for play, where you’ll also encounter happiness, gratitude, and delight. However you play, it is an act of celebrating your embodiment during the short time you have to give thanks for this gift of life.

In this essay from Joe Primo, CEO of Grateful Living, explore how adopting a playful spirit can help you more deeply appreciate and celebrate the gift of being alive.

EXPLORE

The Wisdom of Not Knowing

In this short film, Hanna Naude shares the importance of nurturing your inner child and making space for play as a way to live fully even amidst loss.

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Grown

In this essayette from The Book of Delights, Ross Gay illustrates how the perspective gained from years of living makes way for relief and delight.

Read the essayette…

PRACTICE

Discover Play as a Way of Being

This four-step practice invites you to take stock of the qualities that come alive when you play, and apply those to an everyday task, relationship, or challenge you’re experiencing.

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5-Day Pathway: Reclaim Play — Join Us July 15 - 19!

How might your life be enriched if you could take a more playful approach to your work, your relationships, even your own growth? Join us for our new 5-Day Pathway to explore play as both an activity and a way of being — bringing new meaning, joy, and aliveness to your daily life.

REFLECT

Where do you have an opportunity to approach something with a sense of playfulness this week?

Take a few moments to reflect on your response, whether in your mind, through writing, or in conversation. For further inspiration, read these responses from our community members.

“A meaningful life must be a playful life.”

— Br. David Steindl-Rast

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