Choosing Gratitude 365 Days a Year: Your Daily Guide to Grateful Living - Softcover

Autry, James A; Pederson, Sally J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573126896 ISBN 13: 9781573126892

Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated, 2013

Synopsis

In this follow-up to his best seller Choosing Gratitude: Learning to Love the Life You Have, renowned author James A. Autry joins his wife Sally J. Pederson for a year of gratefulness. Each devotion challenges us to see a source of gratefulness amidst the normal, burdensome circumstances of life. As the year progresses, we are let into Jim and Sally's lives, their trips to visit family, the blessings of their sons and friends. They remind us of things that happened last week or a month ago, even the weather, and so we are looped into the confidence of wise friends who really are the most positive, grateful people we would ever hope to meet. We want to be more grateful as we want to be more honest, more courageous, more generous. Each month, Jim and Sally highlight an added virtue to direct us on our guide to grateful living. Filled with quotes, poems, and the inspired voices of both Pederson and Autry, in a society consumed by fears of not having “enough”—money, possessions, security, and so on—this book suggests that if we cultivate gratitude as a way of being, we may not change the world and its ills, but we can change our response to the world.

About this title

About the Author:

James A. Autry is the author of eleven books, the most recent of which was 2012’s Choosing Gratitude: Learning to Love the Life You Have. A former Fortune 500 executive and magazine editor, he now writes, lectures, and conducts workshops on Servant Leadership in this country and internationally. For one academic year, he held an endowed chair in leadership at Iowa State University and holds four honorary degrees. He describes this collaboration with his wife, Sally Pederson, as a great joy and hopes that spirit shines through the book itself. Sally J. Pederson is an advocate for children and adults with disabilities and a voice for progressive causes. She served as Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from 1999 to 2007 and is a former editor with Better Homes & Gardens magazine, where she met and married the love of her life, Jim Autry. This is her first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1573126896
• ISBN 13: 9781573126892
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234