Gratitude Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/gratitude/ Discovering Delight & Dwelling in Our Days Sat, 02 Dec 2023 23:10:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/adelightfulglow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-1-of-1-4.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Gratitude Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/gratitude/ 32 32 26348127 Our Fourth Collection of Liturgies of the Little Things https://adelightfulglow.com/our-fourth-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/ https://adelightfulglow.com/our-fourth-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/#respond Mon, 04 Dec 2023 10:59:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49312 Heaven Hugging Earth What creative brilliance to paint a sky every morning and evening.A cycle of sameness, over and over.Yet unbelievably different each and every time.Every skyscape influenced by perspective and place.Running ribbons of orange and mauve, swirled strokes of gold blended with violet and aqua.Heaven hugging earth. A Christmas Miracle A Christmas miracle on [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/our-fourth-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/feed/ 0 49312 Abundance, Grocery Aisles and a Liturgy https://adelightfulglow.com/abundance-grocery-aisles-and-a-liturgy/ https://adelightfulglow.com/abundance-grocery-aisles-and-a-liturgy/#respond Sat, 02 Dec 2023 22:13:33 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49305 Abundance • of grace• of beauty• in noticing• in generous living• flung far in light and color• from east to west• meant to be shared• blooms in compassion and kindness• gives with peaceful presence• right in our daily lives• in slow stillness• in steadied measured growth• in perseverance and endurance• from deep places of the [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/abundance-grocery-aisles-and-a-liturgy/feed/ 0 49305 A Third Collection of Liturgies of the Little Things https://adelightfulglow.com/a-third-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/ https://adelightfulglow.com/a-third-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/#respond Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:59:21 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49288 Falling I look at the collection of leaves scattered across my front lawn.Golden hues among a blanket of brown with hidden hints of orange and red. I think about the immense beauty that can be found in endings. I think about Frodo on his perilous journey, Mordor looming dark and foreboding. A glint of gold [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/a-third-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/feed/ 0 49288 The Goodness of God Around Us https://adelightfulglow.com/the-goodness-of-god-around-us/ https://adelightfulglow.com/the-goodness-of-god-around-us/#respond Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:01:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49279 Sarah Westfall writes this:“The liturgy of the little things is an intentional, daily practice of paying attention to the goodness of God that is already around us.” The right here, right now.It’s being where our feet are.Noticing immense beauty in the mundane minutes, the gritty patterns of our Thursdays or our Fridays. Today, the goodness of [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/the-goodness-of-god-around-us/feed/ 0 49279 The Second Collection of Liturgies of the Little Things https://adelightfulglow.com/the-second-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/ https://adelightfulglow.com/the-second-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/#respond Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:36:46 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49263 A Glimpse If you look out my kitchen window you catch a glimpse of our backyard.The rosebushes, messy grass, arborvita.Wooden trim frames the window. Curtains flutter from the tension rod inside the sill.This is the visual. This is what you see.Yet it’s a fraction of the whole, a paragraph apart from the whole story.You won’t [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/the-second-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/feed/ 0 49263 A Collection of Liturgies of the Little Things https://adelightfulglow.com/a-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/ https://adelightfulglow.com/a-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2023 08:26:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49211 Muted Autumn Muted autumn.It speaks of the beauty of cycles and seasons, rhythms and rest, glory and goodness.It sounds of cadence and crunch, drifting leaves and dried seed pods,honking geese and crackling hearthfires.Muted Autumn.An embrace, an exhale,A metastasis, a muse,A quietude.Muted Autumn.A welcome home. Beauty Bursts Beauty bursts.In obvious places, like flower bloomsAnd arranged bouquets,But [...]

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