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Radical Gratitude by Mary Jo Leddy

Radical Gratitude by Mary Jo Leddy. Holy Manners 30 Bookstudy - Winter 2013 ACTS Committee St. David’s United Church, Calgary, Canada rg.stdavidscalgary.net. 1. Session 1. Opening Evening & Chapter 1 Beginnings. Additional resources are on site. http://rg.stdavidscalgary.net. 2.

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Radical Gratitude by Mary Jo Leddy

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  1. Radical Gratitude by Mary Jo Leddy • Holy Manners 30 • Bookstudy - Winter 2013 • ACTS Committee • St. David’s United Church, • Calgary, Canada • rg.stdavidscalgary.net 1

  2. Session 1 Opening Evening & Chapter 1 Beginnings Additional resources are on site. http://rg.stdavidscalgary.net 2

  3. Aims of Study • To introduce the ideas of Mary Jo Leddy in “Radical Gratitude”, who is coming to St. David’s as the theme speaker on Grace for the Annual Stewardship Dinner. • To review our earlier study on her “The Other Face of God” in preparation for her coming to the St. David’s Workshop on Immigration next Mar 1-3 9

  4. Ch 1. Beginnings • “Each one of us has at least one significant word to say with our lives. ... It is not easy to identify the word.” • “In spite of ourselves and sometimes because of us, there is a beckoning and a hearkening” • “... we are found and lost and found again ...” • “... I am summoned to gratitude ...” • “... [realizing] that I am already grateful and that I am not yet grateful.” • “What is the meaning of life? Wherein lies my happiness?” 9

  5. Ch 1. Beginnings • “... Ingratitude is ingrained in our economic system ... for more than 200 years.” • This is not a book about spirituality, but an invitation to ponder gratitude. • “This book is about ordinary grace ... about authentic liberation in a culture ... [that is] chronically dissatisfied ...” • “Authentic spirituality, genuine politics, and good economics arise from a spirit of radical gratitude.” 9

  6. Ch 1. Beginnings • “Culture is like the air we breathe and like fish in the water, we remain largely unconscious of the context in which we live and move and have our being.” • “I have come to see our many faiths as so many great rivers, which are all flowing toward the same vast ocean of the mystery of God.” • We are from God, with God and meant to be for God. 9

  7. Video • TED - Gratitude for Creation • by Louie Schwartzberg • 10 minutes • a delightful presentation of time lapse photography of flowers and nature • and an introspection on being grateful by a child and an old man. http://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_nature_beauty_gratitude.html 9

  8. Break • Discussion Questions: • 1. In what ways have we like Mary Jo experienced new beginnings? • 2. She invites us to explore gratitude. What sorts of gratefulness might we better notice in our lives? • Next Week: • Ch 2. Perpetual Dissatisfaction. 10

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