“Serve the Lord with gladness!...” Psalm 100:2
“I
walk out to the street through the rain, grace falling all around, and I drive
home thinking of my brother-in-law, John. John, who had buried his two sons,
who let me into his healing through crazy grief when he said, ‘The way through
the pain is to reach out to others in theirs.’ I have known ache and becoming
the blessing is what deeply blesses us and this is the way He binds up our wounds.
…
Eucharisteo (giving thanks) wakens me wide-eyed and nodding to the words of
Tagore* that I, a mother of six, now own, bought with the practice of Eucharisteo, “I slept and dreamt life
was joy, I woke and saw life was service, I acted and, behold, service was joy.”
Ann Voskamp, One
Thousand Gifts, 2009
*Rabindranath Tagore, quoted in John Shea, The Spirit Wisdom of the Gospels for
Christian Preachers and Teachers, 2006
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