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Radical Gratitude
by Mary Jo Leddy
Holy Manners 30 Bookstudy - Winter 2013
ACTS CommitteeSt. David’s United Church,
Calgary, Canadarg.stdavidscalgary.net
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Session 1
Additional resources are on site. http://rg.stdavidscalgary.net
Opening Evening&
Chapter 1Beginnings
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• To introduce the ideas of Mary Jo Leddy in “Radical Gratitude”, who is coming to St. David’s as the theme speaker on Grace for the Annual Stewardship Dinner.
• To review our earlier study on her “The Other Face of God” in preparation for her coming to the St. David’s Workshop on Immigration next Mar 1-3
Aims of Study
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• “Each one of us has at least one significant word to say with our lives. ... It is not easy to identify the word.”
• “In spite of ourselves and sometimes because of us, there is a beckoning and a hearkening”
• “... we are found and lost and found again ...” • “... I am summoned to gratitude ...” • “... [realizing] that I am already grateful and that I am not
yet grateful.”• “What is the meaning of life? Wherein lies my happiness?”
Ch 1. Beginnings
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• “... Ingratitude is ingrained in our economic system ... for more than 200 years.”
• This is not a book about spirituality, but an invitation to ponder gratitude.
• “This book is about ordinary grace ... about authentic liberation in a culture ... [that is] chronically dissatisfied ...”
• “Authentic spirituality, genuine politics, and good economics arise from a spirit of radical gratitude.”
Ch 1. Beginnings
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• “Culture is like the air we breathe and like fish in the water, we remain largely unconscious of the context in which we live and move and have our being.”
• “I have come to see our many faiths as so many great rivers, which are all flowing toward the same vast ocean of the mystery of God.”
• We are from God, with God and meant to be for God.
Ch 1. Beginnings
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•TED - Gratitude for Creation•by Louie Schwartzberg • 10 minutes•a delightful presentation of time lapse
photography of flowers and nature•and an introspection on being grateful
Video
http://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_nature_beauty_gratitude.html
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BreakDiscussion Questions:
1. In what ways have we like Mary Jo experienced new beginnings?
2. She invites us to explore gratitude. What sorts of gratefulness might we better notice in our lives?
Next Week: Ch 2. Perpetual Dissatisfaction.
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