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July 11, 2025
The Mindful Photographer Activity
Chapter 7: Gratitude
From Corrie & Tom Hermans-Webster
Here's our brief reflection on Gratitude:
Give us this day our daily bread, we were taught to pray. Our prayer, that prayer, may have become as regular as a “thank you” to a stranger or a family member, said in response to the smallest interaction, maybe even a fleeting whisper uttered only out of a sense of politeness before the moment escapes. Yet, like the “thank you,” asking for a single loaf that we can share with others gives us a glimpse into a basic fact of our existence: we are knit together, you and I, relatives in the Body of Christ, with one another, and with the whole creation. Our relatedness is the fertile soil that nurtures our gratitude. Tending gratitude is neither easy nor simple, for gratitude humbles each of us with the realization that we cannot, in fact, do it all on our own. Gratitude becomes a responsive stance, a co-creative dance with the other folks–the Divine, human, and other-than-human people–in our lives and throughout our world who make our lives possible in Love. Gratitude is our chance to bask in the opportunity to live, just for a moment, as we lovingly seek to make life possible for another. The Eucharist is, here, aptly named. “Eucharisto” is, after all, Greek for “thanks.” The bread of our Lord’s prayer and the bread of his table invite us into the beautifully humble “thank you” in love, to life, for the life of the world.
Peace,
Tom and Corrie
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