A Note from Your Pastor: In Gratitude This Veterans Day
In Gratitude This Veterans Day
Dear Friends in Christ –
I’m engaged in a month-long study/consideration/contemplation/exploration of gratitude. Diana Butler Bass is leading this online with her book, Gratitude as the text. Have I surrendered to the journaling and the zoom calls and podcasts? No. (Anyone surprised?) But I’m positioned for an awareness of my place in the realm of God as a beloved, forgiven, empowered person. I more easily and more often embrace the unmerited blessings that are mine – and yours/ours.
The study highlighted BOATLIFT, an Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience. Tom Hanks narrates the epic story of the 9/11 boatlift that evacuated half a million people from the stricken piers of lower Manhattan the day the Twin Towers fell. I remember that day and the heroic efforts of men and women who stepped up to do what they could.
On this day we remember the men and women who gave their all-in service to our great nation. Let us all take a moment to lift each one and their loved ones in gratitude. And may we pray for the courage to stand in God’s righteousness and purpose in the days ahead.
In gratitude on this Veterans Day,