Grateful Offerings

April 2024

The Grateful Life Is a Liberated Life

A mighty gift that exists within living gratefully is that when your thoughts constrict your perspective, your practice opens you up to life — it liberates you from dualistic thinking that distracts you from whatever gifts, opportunities, beauty, and precious moments fill a day. It does so because it grounds you in each breath, step, and encounter, and in every moment where you are on this side of death.

In this essay from Joe Primo, CEO of Grateful Living, discover how fear limits your perspective and how living gratefully offers a liberating path.

EXPLORE

Grateful Voices: Adetola

"When I need to tap into gratitude and grateful living in these times, I go to a place where I tap into fearlessness," shares Adetola in this short video. Her story shows the power of gratefulness through family, trust in life, surrender, and love.

Watch video…

The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water...

Read/listen to the poem by Wendell Berry…

PRACTICE

Gestures of Gratitude to Counteract Fear and Violence

In this essay, Br. David Steindl-Rast offers five simple and powerful daily actions you can take to spread trust, courage, calm, and belonging rather than fear.

Try one of Br. David's actions today…

Grateful Hope: Register by April 14 for our New Live Course

Whatever challenges you are navigating day to day — from personal heartache to the weight of the world's struggles — grateful hope can change your perspective in surprising ways. Join us and learn from world-renowned experts — spiritual leaders, authors, a musician, and a peace builder — whose work, life, and wisdom will show us the way.

REFLECT

When has a fearful perspective prevented you from fully experiencing a moment that could have provided meaningful opportunities? How can you free yourself from choosing this fearful perspective in the future?

Take a few moments to reflect on your response, whether in your mind, through writing, or in conversation.

“There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other.”

— Wangari Maathai

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