Make this small tweak in your gratitude practice and discover how thankfulness connects you to others.
Building a Gratitude Practice – Where to Begin
Radical gratitude begins when we stop taking life for granted.~Mary Jo Leddy The following recommendations to begin a gratitude practice were developed after leading The Gratefulness Experiment for the past three years and hearing from participants about what worked (or didn't). Please share in a comment if you have extra insights from your own process! … Continue reading Building a Gratitude Practice – Where to Begin
Curbing “the drift” in your gratitude practice
If you're attempting a gratitude practice, you can probably find something to be grateful for with very little prompting. Right now, I can look around me and give thanks for the low hanging gratitude fruit of: sunshine, a comfortable room to write in, and good health. But I can very quickly qualify my gratitude for … Continue reading Curbing “the drift” in your gratitude practice
4 Gratefulness Fallacies
Ingratitude often results from misunderstanding the nature of thanks, failing to see the bigger picture of our lives, or forgetting to nurture a spirit of gratefulness.– Diana Butler Bass, Grateful As with any spiritual practice, gratefulness has its pitfalls. We might call these fallacies, where people can use the concept of gratefulness loosely to justify … Continue reading 4 Gratefulness Fallacies
Join the 40-Day Gratefulness Experiment This Lent
I'm excited to offer a 40-Day Gratefulness Experiment during Lent! The Gratefulness Experiment is a small group experience where you engage your gratitude muscles as you practice solo and group spiritual disciplines, which helps us access the realities of God's goodness in everyday life. The 40-day Gratefulness Experiment goes from March 5 (Ash Wednesday) to … Continue reading Join the 40-Day Gratefulness Experiment This Lent
One practice to give up this Thanksgiving
Gratitude can be experienced by anyone, anywhere, without permission and without restraint… It is, perhaps, the most immediate and most primal of all spiritual affections - one that makes every human being a priest. –Diana Butler Bass I would like to make an appeal to remove one practice from our thanks-giving this weekend and, ideally, … Continue reading One practice to give up this Thanksgiving
The 700 Club Canada Interview
Loreli Cockram is interviewed by 700 Club Canada about the story behind The Gratefulness Experiment and why it's important for us as believers to grow in gratefulness.
Join the Next Gratefulness Experiment
Here's the short story: In the fall of 2022, I was on the verge of burnout. I was tired, short-fused, and had a stunning lack of compassion, even though I worked in a compassion ministry. Friends, family, and co-workers were noticing I wasn't myself. I could chalk it up to over-working or the stresses of … Continue reading Join the Next Gratefulness Experiment
3 reasons why a gratefulness practice is difficult
Gratitude is having its day in the sun as a simple yet immensely helpful lifestyle discipline. I have yet to find a study that counters its benefits for our mental, emotional, and physical well-being, but I've been curious about what the studies don't show. When I look at the attrition rate for a fairly uncomplicated … Continue reading 3 reasons why a gratefulness practice is difficult
Grateful in and for Community
An attribute of gratefulness is that it can't be practiced alone, not to its full extent. By its nature, it is a reciprocal activity. There is (a) an acknowledgment that we've received something outside of ourselves, and (b) a fulfillment of gratefulness by its outward expression to whom we are grateful. Here's an example. As … Continue reading Grateful in and for Community
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