Grace & Gratitude

Weekly Descriptions

Week One

Recognizing God’s Grace

 

Monday: Grace and Gratitude

  • You are invited to live into the cycle of receiving God’s grace and responding in gratitude. Make your gratitude practice an intentional prayer practice.

Wednesday: What is God’s Grace?

  • Reflect on the mystery, the gift, and the love found in God’s grace. Begin to notice grace-filled moments in your daily life.

Friday: Go on a Grace-Filled Walk

  • In this vdeo, Christine Jurisich invites you to slow down and go on a walking meditation to help you become more aware of God’s grace.

Friday: Sharing Session on Zoom

This offering is optional and for those who wish to share the week’s content live on Zoom.

  • April 1, 2022 9AM - 10AM (PT)

 

Week Two

Receiving God’s Grace

 

Monday: Opening Your Heart

  • Grounding your gratitude practice in grace requires letting go of the illusion of self-suffiency and opening your heart. In gratitude, there is a receiver and a giver. Both are needed and God resides in this moment of communion.

Wednesday: Standing on Holy Ground

  • How sustainable is a gratitude practice that is dependent on things going your way? What about the times when you are in deep pain? Make your practice an authentic one that sustains you during your most stressful times.

Friday: Grace & Gratitude Breath Prayer

  • In this video, Christine Jurisich guides you through a grace and gratitude breath prayer that can be helpful even in your most stressful moments when gratitude may be the last thing on your mind.

Friday: Sharing Session on Zoom

This offering is optional and for those who wish to share the week’s content live on Zoom.

  • April 8, 9AM - 10AM (PT)

 

Week Three

Enough is Enough

 

Monday: You Are Enough

  • How many times in a day do you hear or tell yourself a 'not-enough' message? These are toxic narratives. Reflect on what is enough in your life: what you have, what you do, and who you are is enough.

Wednesday: God is Enough

  • Where is God in my suffering? Where is God in all the violence and injustice around the world? Somewhere hidden in your heart, you may be secretly fearing, Is God enough? Reflect on the ways God is present and enough in this moment in your life.

Friday: Enough is Enough

  • In this video Christine Jurisich invites you to a prayer ritual gathering items around your home that symbolize the “enough-ness” in your life.

No Sharing Session on this day.

We will not have a Zoom Sharing Session on this Friday because it is Good Friday. We will have one a week after the retreat ends.

 

Week Four

Responding with Gratitude

 

Monday: Responding to Grace in People

  • How does your new awareness in God’s grace move you to respond to people differently?

Wednesday: Responding to Grace in Nature

  • How does your new awareness of God’s grace move you to respond to nature differently?

Friday: Responding in Gratitude

  • In this video Christine Jurisich invites you to incorporate all you have learned in a closing prayer ritual.

Friday: Sharing Session on Zoom

  • April 22, 2022, 9AM - 10AM (PT)

  • April 29, 2022 9AM - 10AM (PT) *

    *We are holding our last sharing session a week after the retreat ends because we will not be holding one on Good Friday.