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Turn to Gratitude Black Tin
Turn to Gratitude Black Tin
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Marshmallow light
Turn to Gratitude
Price $14.00
Wood Wick Coco-Apricot Wax Candle
Soft, sweet, and oh-so-snuggly! Marshmallow Light smells like a cozy night wrapped in your favorite blanket. Fluffy marshmallow swirls with creamy sweetness, while a touch of vanilla makes everything feel warm and welcoming. Light it up and let your space smell like a hug in candle form!
Top: Marshmallow
Mid: Sweet Cream
Base: Vanilla
- Size 7 ounces
- Black Tin
- Dimensions 3.15" W x 2.36" H
- Weight 7.7 ounces
- Burn time is 36 hours.
Father Jacque Philippe from his book Fire & Light highlights this practice so beautifully below.
Gratitude is another very powerful attitude for attracting the grace of the Holy Spirit.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux offers this testimonial to it:
“It is the spirit of gratitude which draws down upon us the overflow of God’s grace… for no sooner have we thanked Him for one blessing than He hastens to send us ten additional favors in return. Then, when we show our gratitude for these new gifts, He multiplies His benedictions to such a degree that there seems to be a constant stream of divine grace ever coming our way. This has been my own personal experience; try it out for yourself and see. For all that Our Lord is constantly giving me, my gratitude is boundless, and I try to prove it to Him in a thousand different ways.”
Under its light and even humorous surface, this passage reveals a profound truth: gratitude opens us to the gifts of grace. Not that it makes God more generous—(for he is fully so), —but it makes us more open and receptive to His love. Gratitude turns our gaze away from ourselves and directs it fully toward Him.
Gratitude is very fruitful because it is a sign that we have really understood and welcomed the love of God, and it puts us in a position to receive even more. “For to him who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not [who does not realize what he has already received], even what he has will be taken away,” Jesus says (Mt 13:12).
Gratitude is very fruitful because it is a sign that we have really understood and welcomed the love of God, and it puts us in a position to receive even more. “For to him who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not [who does not realize what he has already received], even what he has will be taken away,” Jesus says (Mt 13:12).
Love is drawn to love. Gratitude is an extremely efficacious attitude of receptivity, while ingratitude, complaint, jealousy, and defensiveness close our hearts and deprive us of God’s gifts.
St. Bernard expresses this in a commentary on the gospel story of the lepers: all were healed by Jesus, but only one, a Samaritan, came back to give him thanks:
“Happy is the one who returns each gift of grace to Him in whom is the fullness of all grace. So long as we do not betray ourselves as ungrateful to God for what we have received, we make a space for grace within us and so merit to receive still more. Surely our ingratitude alone impedes our progress in conversion, since the Giver supposes that what He gives is in a sense lost if it is received ungratefully; thus He is cautious about giving more, lest the more He confers upon the ingrate, the more He loses. Hence, he who considers himself a foreigner is happy, for he responds even to small kindnesses with great gratitude.”
Similarly, Mother Mectilde de Bar offers this gentle counsel:
“I beg of you, my child, to spend all your life in love of humble acknowledgment—in thanking God, in praising Him, and blessing Him for all His blessings. It is a holy practice and one that has led me to growth in graces and to marvels without equal. In thanking Our Lord, you draw to yourself new blessings.”
