Today’s question: CAN YOU NAME OUT LOUD WHAT YOU ARE MOST GRATEFUL FOR?

This is Day 15 of the 5-week Lenten journey with The Society of Saint John the Evangelist and their daily meditation on TIME.

See Br. David Allen on the video (2:37) below, or to leave comments on the Brothers' website, go here. (http://ssje.org/ssje/2015/03/03/pray-4-gratitude)

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Question: CAN YOU NAME OUT LOUD WHAT YOU ARE MOST GRATEFUL FOR?

Transcript of Video:
I find it sometimes amiable to say, “Thank you, God” when I wake up in the morning, but more often I’m in more of a hurry to get the alarm clock turned off. But certainly when I go to the Chapel to pray, it is with a sense of thanksgiving for this opportunity to be willing to deal with prayer. And at breakfast time I am ever able to thank God for the gifts that he has given me and ask for his blessings throughout the day. And then, as I said, there are various things that happen: good things happen spontaneously, and I say under my breath, “Thank you, God.”

Very often, these days my private prayer very often is in Japanese so, [speaking Japanese] “Kami ni kansha” to God we thank. I don’t know – these things happen so spontaneously sometimes that it’s hard to think of particular times or ways throughout the day. It isn’t a continuous thing, because as a human being I sometimes find myself concentrating on some task that has to be done, meeting a timetable and trying to get everything done that I think I need to. But when I do get something accomplished or suddenly an inspiration comes – I try to write a sermon – I do say within myself, within or in silence, “Thank you, God.” “Kami ni kansha.”

                                                                      -Br. David Allen

Blessings on our journey to re-order time in our lives,
Agatha