Your Daily Reprieve 12.09.25
Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday December 9, 2025 From Waynesville, NC Even in pain, we can find a place of gratitude, a place where alongside the agony of loss we still count and appreciate what remains. —Brian D. McLaren When we more fully understand the grace we’ve received, we are able to turn outward in gratitude and generosity. Gratitude becomes “our home in the presence of God.” —Christine D. Pohl Gratitude is not a form of passive acceptance or complicity. Rather, it is the capacity to stare doubt, loss, chaos, and despair right in the eye and say, “I am still here.” —Diana Butler Bass The only way to increase authentic spirituality is to deliberately practice actually enjoying a positive response and a grateful heart. —Richard Rohr Big B...