Tag: gratitude

I didn’t know to be thankful

When I went off to college in 2007, I experienced the same sense of liberating happiness that a lot of freshmen get. A freshness of place, a new kind of freedom. But I also caught...

/ November 27, 2013

The Hardest Thing About Thankfulness

Think of someone important to you. Your wife or your mother or your professor. Maybe they’re important because of something they’ve done for you, or maybe it’s just because you like them. If you really...

/ November 25, 2013

Live a life of gratitude, but don’t forget about duty

My perception of the Christian community today is that we are largely imperative driven. We major on the ‘ought to’ and ‘how to’ with little regard for that which makes us ‘want to.’ But the...

/ July 31, 2013