Loreli Cockram

🇨🇦 Urban Missionary | Young Parents Director at Youth Unlimited (Toronto YFC) | Founder of The Gratefulness Experiment

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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We can't ask or expect others to make us grateful. This is an inside job.

[John Newton @JohnNewtonProj]

There is one political maxim which comforts me: 'The Lord reigns.'

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Gratefulness offers a powerful perspective shift that can help us change our present, have hope for the future, and appreciate our past.

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

A survivor who has never known safety or dignity talks with you—you treat her/him carefully, respectfully, kindly and with gentleness—have you changed them? No. But in that moment, in your Christlikeness, you have by His Spirit brought a small shaft of light into their darkness.

[Ken Shigematsu @KenShigematsu]

"I'm grateful that I have suffered so that I can be more fully human. And so I love the thing that I most wish didn't happen because it gave me a gift.” (Stephen Colbert)

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Busy? Try resting!

True rest expands our capacity to serve others. Overwork does the opposite. Seems counterintuitive and we resist it.

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Grateful for the opportunity to be interviewed about The Gratefulness Experiment on 700 Club Canada
https://t.co/YKxsMV94rY

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Bless you who sit in the tension of listening and supporting without fixing. Your ministry can be exhausting and weighty, but know that you are making an important difference as you bear witness to the lives of those who are suffering.

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Gratitude is an attribute of the forgiven.

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The idea of gratitude isn't radical. The practice of it is.

[Scotty Smith @ScottyWardSmith]

1. Humiliation – The toxic power of shame.
2. Humility – The fruit, fragrance, and freedom of God’s grace.
3. Hardening one's heart – The insanity of refusing to humble ourselves to receive God’s welcoming, healing, transforming grace.

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@aarikdanielsen And yours would be?

[Scotty Smith @ScottyWardSmith]

To forgive isn’t to “let someone off the hook”—a fishing image of releasing a fish tricked into taking our bait. To forgive is to stay humbled, astonished, and grateful for how God has fully forgiven us in Christ, and then to extend that same mercy and grace to others.

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@TheAlanNoble I thought curiosity was a virtue! Interesting perspective, would love to hear more!

[Thabiti Anyabwile @ThabitiAnyabwil]

I hope you’ll go be with your brothers and sisters in your local church tomorrow—and really be with them. Enjoy their company. Fellowship in prayer, the word and song. Try not to be in a hurry to leave them. Serve them and be served.

Remember Jn 13:34-35 and 1 Pe 2:9-10 and 12.

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@JCRyle Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer by Br. David Steindl-Rast

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@JCRyle Questioning Evangelism by Randy Newman

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@JCRyle 9 Arts of Spiritual Conversation