FIRESIDE CHAT
1. Generosity is Activated Gratitude
Gratitude is a living thing that carries the truth inside. When it is active in a human being that person is postured not only to receive but to knowingly and trust-fully open themselves in full awareness of their essential contingency as a being, a being who is aware that they are sustained breath by breath, drink by drink, and so on, by the life-giving powers of God the Creator.
The generosity of God is the center of the human family table, love becomes food at our lips for our flourishing as individuals and members in community. Every meal connects us to every person who had a hand in cultivating its fruits and vegetables, packaging and distributing various products throughout our neighborhoods, all the way to the cashier you pay at Meijer. The faithful grains of the field become our daily bread and on these many miracles we are fed.
If you are living comfortably and gratefully the question then is how will that gratitude manifest in your relationships? To the earth? To one another? A logical and possible answer: With generosity, hospitality and by cultivating ourselves into a people who desire to support other people with needs more pressing than their own, and understanding that in doing so we aren't losing anything but gaining all that much more experience in what it means to flourish TOGETHER as a profoundly resourced and resourceful, interdependent human family.
So let us pray and live what we pray for.
