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Podcast: theeffect Podcasts
Episode: Gratefully Enough
Description: Dave Brisbin 11.30.25
Gratitude and thankfulness are not the same.
I see thankfulness as a positive reaction to a specific gift or circumstance, and though gratitude begins there, it journeys on to a non-specific attitude, a view of life that is all-inclusive, sees everything around us as a gift we could never give ourselves. Once we’re aware that life is the free reception of what we could never give ourselves or repay, that repayment is not even required, any sense of entitlement vanishes.
Jesus said the highest form of love is loving the enemy: loving—identifying with—someone who had not ea...