Category: Graciousness
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Get This App: Reimagining the Examen
I love to find tools to help Everyday Stewards on their daily walk and today I want to share one such tool with you. If you are familiar with the Everyday Stewardship spirituality, you know that the prayers of St. Ignatius of Loyola play a big part in our daily life, especially the Suspice and…
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To Serve or Be Served
Let’s be real. It is awesome to be at an all-inclusive resort, a 4 or 5 star hotel, or a top restaurant, and be catered to like you were royalty. People bending over backwards to make sure you are happy. No matter who you are and no matter the simplicity you have been able to…
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Good Hospitality
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2016 When we realize we are going to have company, my family and I swing into motion with a frenzy. No dust shall be present for our guests. The bathrooms will be spotless and toilets worthy of the name “throne.” We must run to…
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True Stewardship
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2016 What does it mean to give of yourself completely, without reservation, without fear, and without a concern for the cost? Should it matter if the person who needs us is unlike us in skin color, religion, or nationality? What does real mercy look like?…
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Where is the Happiest Place on Earth?
My heart aches for the parents of a little boy who recently lost his life while vacationing on a Disney property. This post was written before news of this event broke. Please read my post from the following day as well HERE. Have you ever been to Disneyland or Disney World? Disney is quite an…
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Don’t Throw Stones; Build Something Instead
An Everyday Stewardship Reflection for Seventh Sunday of Easter 2016 I am currently dealing with my third and youngest child going through middle school. I am convinced that the middle school years are a time of real purgatory on earth. It is also a time that tests your faith in humanity, because you wonder at…
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Spontaneous Stewardship
I had a wonderful Holy Week and Easter and I hope all of you reading this did so as well! There were so many aspects of the last several days I am thankful for and made me think. One such moment of inspiration occurred on Good Friday during Stations of the Cross. When we arrived…
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The Letters
Even in a world that at times seems lost and lacking in love, there are good stewards everywhere that serve as good role models for us all. They demonstrate to us that holiness is not just for those we read about in a Book of Saints. They remind us that we all have the capacity…
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An Everyday Steward is Gracious
For the 5 Sundays of Lent and Passion Sunday, the Everyday Stewardship reflection will look at each of the 6 characteristics of an Everyday Steward, as contained in the book of the same name. Check back each Thursday on the Main Thing Blog for that Sunday’s reflection. 4th Sunday of Lent – 2016 I read an article…
Tracy Earl Welliver 