Radical Gratitude

Radical Gratitude

by Mary Jo Leddy
Radical Gratitude

Radical Gratitude

by Mary Jo Leddy

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Overview

Mary Jo Leddys new book is a meditation on the miracle of the everyday and a guide to discovering what is most real in oneself. The process she describes leads to "radical gratitude" that allows the spirit to appreciate the earthy things that give true joy. Gratitude, she says, arises in the in-between space where the inner and outer worlds meet.
"In radical gratitude," she writes, "the vicious dissatisfaction with life is broken. We begin to recognize what we have rather than what we dont...we awaken to another way of being, another kind of economy, the great economy of grace in which each person is of infinite value and worth."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608331048
Publisher: Orbis
Publication date: 07/28/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 622 KB

Table of Contents

1.Beginnings1
2.Perpetual Dissatisfaction14
What Drives Us?18
The Culture of Money19
The Captivity of Craving21
Culturally Induced Dissatisfaction23
A Deeper Dissatisfaction25
A Wider Dissatisfaction27
Partial Liberations29
Captivity Then and Now32
3.Radical Gratitude38
Stories of Gratitude41
My Beginning41
Beginning Again, Out of the Great Blue42
Christopher44
Overwhelming Goodness on September 1144
A Preference for Being46
The Sun and Poverty46
Room Enough for Gratitude47
Someone to Thank48
The Multiplication of Money49
The Dynamics of Gratitude50
Beyond Dissatisfaction52
The Great Economy of Grace55
Ingratitude59
Loving God for Nothing61
Eucharist63
Giving Ourselves Away65
Jesus, the Example of Radical Gratitude68
Acting on Gratitude69
4.Creative Power71
The Craving for Power73
Power and Controlling Interest76
Powerlessness Corrupts79
Dreams Deferred81
The Resentment of Powerlessness82
Powerlessness and Violence83
The Enchantment of Powerlessness84
The Innocence of Victims85
The Organization of Powerlessness87
Relational Power89
The Omnipotence of God93
Real Powerlessness and Radical Powerlessness96
The Power of Jesus97
The Power of Christian Community100
5.The Point of Our Being104
Episodic Meaning105
Lifelines from the Past107
The Myth of Progress109
From Better to More112
The Empire of More113
Without a Vision the People Perish116
Political Ways of Coping with a Loss of Vision120
The Future and Class Time124
Imperial Ideologies126
The Need for Enemies128
Living with Purpose132
Jesus and the Point of His Being139
6.Living with Spirit142
1.Begin before You Are Ready144
2.Practice Gratitude145
3.Gather with Like-Spirited People152
4.Live More Simply156
5.Look for Good Examples159
6.Think with the Mind of Your Heart162
7.See from the Center and the Edge165
8.Be Connected to a Longer Tradition, a Wider Community165
9.Find a Beloved Community168
10.Contemplate the Face of the World170
Acknowledgments174
Notes on Sources and Recommended Readings175
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