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Gratefully Alive (pt. 4): The Blessed Community

Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23       James 2:1-17       Mark 7:24-37   “ Can …  anybody …  find me …  somebody to …  love. ”  I may not be Freddy Mercury, but those words remind me of why we are here. We are part of the blessed community formed by the love of God. We have found each other, so that we may have somebody to love.   As the blessed community of God, we are founded by and formed in our gratitude to God’s grace – the freely given love that knows no bounds nor limits. Over the last month, we have been talking  a bout  the transformative power of our gratitude to God’s grace.    Today we are on part  four  of four-part series on gratitude which is based on reflections on the lectionary in conversation with the book,  Gratitude  –  The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks , by Diana Butler Bass.   So far we have tal...