By LCS faculty member Libby Dalrymple, from her Chapel Address, October 7, 2020 I’d like to take a moment this morning to think about two words. The first word is Thanksgiving. It’s a two-part, compound word that implies action: Giving …..Thanks. That is what our upcoming holiday is all about - taking time in our lives to GIVE THANKS. It’s wonderful that we have a special holiday devoted to this concept but, as we all know, it’s important to give thanks more than once a year. Ideally, we try to do so daily. This brings me to the second word: Gratitude. In the field of Positive Psychology, there are psychologists who research many aspects of Gratitude, including a man named Bob Emmons. Even though it’s only one word, he talks about gratitude as being conceptually made up of two parts: “it’s an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are…
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