Name: Gratitude and Thankfulness
Start: 2024-11-21T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-11-21T21:00:00-07:00
Location: The Table Public House

Date: Thursday, November 21 @ 7:00pm
Location: The Table Public House
Zoom Link: [https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81036029036](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81036029036)
Curriculum: www.brewtheology.org/weekly-meetings/2024/11/21/gratitude-and-thankfulness
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As we head towards the Thanksgiving holiday we want to spend a few moments with **Gratitude and Thankfulness.** If can be easy to ignore these concepts but they contain the power to not only improve our mental health, but also our physical health. And, when we practice them with each other we build connection and resiliency.

We'll take a look at some of the current research around Gratitude. We'll look at some theological perspectives on it, and take a few minutes to practice it together. A regular practice of gratitude can be transformative.

Here's a few tidbits from different traditions.

**From Christianity:**
"Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful." - Colossians 4:2

**From A.J. Jacobs and Thankfulness in Jewish life**
“To be Jewish is to be thankful,” said Josh Franklin, rabbi of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. For further evidence, you could point to the raft of thankfulness prayers observant Jews are required to say in everyday life. The first words of the first morning prayer translate to “I thank you.” Other thanksgiving prayers are delightfully, if oddly, specific.

* There’s a prayer of thanks you can say when you see someone who is nearsighted.
* There’s a prayer of thanks for when food resembles its ingredients, and another when it doesn’t.
* There’s even a prayer of thankfulness for the concept of thankfulness. Very meta.

**From Islam:** The posture of prostration (Sujūd or sajdah) is a physical practice of thanksgiving and gratitude to God, in which Muslims bow on the ground.

**From Buddhism:** "In Shin Buddhism, we don’t practice to achieve anything—not enlightenment, good karma, a favorable rebirth, or material rewards. We practice simply to give thanks for what we have received." (Lion's Roar by Jeff Wilson)

So please join us this week as we talk **Gratitude and Thankfulness.** And I encourage you to notate one thing each day - on paper or on your phone - that you are thankful for, and consider sending a text to someone just letting them know you are grateful for them.

Hope to see you there. Please join us!

Janel

Rob C.

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