{"id":12583,"date":"2022-11-24T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/?p=12583"},"modified":"2022-11-23T13:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T18:08:35","slug":"small-but-powerful-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/give-us-this-day\/small-but-powerful-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Small-but-powerful words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century German priest and mystic, famously wrote, \u201cIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is \u2018thank you,\u2019 it will be enough.\u201d Today, as we gather with family and friends to say thank you in the grandest fashion, complete with far too much food and football, it\u2019s a good time to take a closer look at where\u2014or whether\u2014that prayer makes its way into our lives the other 364 days of the year. Like the lepers in today\u2019s Gospel, too often we are like the nine who did not bother to return and thank Jesus for their miraculous healing. We beg, we plead, we bargain, and then when life turns out as we had hoped\u2014in big things and ways\u2014we have already moved on to the next request, often without even pausing to utter those two small-but-powerful words: thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Gratitude is a transformative practice. Put into daily rotation in our spiritual lives, it can remake us in all the best ways. When we are grateful for all that we have, not just in good times but all the time, we begin to see blessings where we hadn\u2019t seen them before; we begin to live life from a place of abundance rather than a place of lack. Suddenly a walk through the grocery store or a drive to the office becomes an opportunity for grace, gratitude, and the awareness of God\u2019s undeniable presence in the middle of our messy lives.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary DeTurris Poust, \u201cSmall-but-Powerful Words,\u201d from the November 2022 issue of Give Us This Day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giveusthisday.org\">www.giveusthisday.org<\/a> (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2022). Used with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@bydanielandrade?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Daniel Andrade<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/thank-you?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century German priest and mystic, famously wrote, \u201cIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is \u2018thank you,\u2019 it will be enough.\u201d Today, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[528],"tags":[391,241,558,148],"class_list":["post-12583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-give-us-this-day","tag-give-us-this-day","tag-gratitude","tag-thank-you","tag-thanksgiving"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Small-but-powerful words &#8211; Not Strictly Spiritual<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Don&#039;t know what to say when you pray? 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