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The discipline of gratefulness is a precondition for a life of sustained joy. Yet such joy can seem elusive in a world full of pain and brokenness. Fortunately, there are concrete steps we can take to cultivate a grateful posture and pursue practices that resist both a denialism about the world’s brokenness and the lie that God has not remained good to us. Join us, as we reflect on how people of faith can embody a way of life that consistently affirms God’s goodness and demonstrates why God deserves our gratitude.
Libby Germer grew up in the Pacific Northwest and studied International Relations before marrying Kevin and moving to the East Coast for graduate school. She taught History to high schoolers for thirteen years in public schools and private schools before crying as she left the classroom to become the Principal of Church Hill Academy. A Fulbright Scholar to Greece, a curriculum writer in Yale's National Teacher Initiative, and second runner up for Richmond's Teacher of the Year, she believes that the most impressive thing she's ever done is to stay in high school forever. Libby loves nothing more than the sound of a school bell and the chance to start again with a teenager, every school day of the year. Which is especially good now that one of her sons is a teenager and the other has entered middle school. She has lots of opportunities for fresh starts and forgiveness at home!