Gratitude – Falling Up After 50

Gifts & Graces: May 2023

Here’s my random gratitude collection of mostly small but sometimes large things that helped make May better.

Gifts & Graces: April 2023

Here’s my random gratitude collection of mostly small but sometimes large things that helped make April better.

Savoring is a specific practice I’m cultivating in my Lenten journey to stay awake and present. Very often, our days become routine – we do the same things repeatedly and even think the same way. This makes time appear to pass very quickly. Savoring is a way to break out of the dullness of too… Continue reading Savoring Our Moments

Gifts & Graces: January 2023

Here’s my random gratitude collection of mostly small but sometimes large things that helped make January better.

Gifts & Graces: December 2022

Here’s my random gratitude collection of mostly small but sometimes large things that helped make December better.

Gratitude and Letting Go

Just when we get good at adding things to our lives to make them better, we realize it may be time to start letting things go. How do we be grateful for this?

What We Take for Granted

There’s a specific daily prayer practice that can help us take less for granted and be more grateful.

Gifts & Graces: October 2022

Here’s my random gratitude collection of mostly small but sometimes large things that helped make October better.

Prayer for A Perfect (Ordinary) Day

After being away for a week, I’m now home again and into my regular routine. Instead of seeing sunrise over the ocean, my morning walk now provides a view of sunrise over traffic. So much of life consists of normal, ordinary days that speed by as frantically as cars on their morning commute. Here’s a morning prayer for days like these.

Gifts & Graces: September 2022

Here’s my random gratitude collection of mostly small but sometimes large things that helped make September better.