🎙️ Everyday Monks — “Gratitude, Providence, and the God Who Gives the Increase”

In this Feast of Thanksgiving episode, the clergy of St. Benedict’s gather around the table—pipes lit, coffee steaming, laughter in the air—to talk about the kind of gratitude that goes far deeper than a holiday.

Canon Michael Vinson, Dcn. Timothy Wilson, Fr. Michael Templin, and Fr. Marq Toombs reflect on the goodness of God in the ordinary rhythms of life: food, fellowship, loss, memory, beauty, harvest, and hope. What emerges is a rich meditation on providence—the God who sees, sustains, provides, and surprises His people again and again.

In this warm and spirited conversation, the monks explore:

🍂 Thanksgiving as a Feast, Not a FeelingHow the Prayer Book captures gratitude not as sentiment, but as worship—an offering of humility, confession, and joy.

🌾 “The God Who Gives the Increase”Stories of provision in lean times, unexpected blessings, answered prayers, and the quiet ways God tends His children.

📖 Scripture’s Call to RememberWhy Thanksgiving is woven through Israel’s story—and why forgetting God is always the first step toward fear.

🕯 The Eucharistic VisionHow the Church teaches us to see all of life—land, labor, bread, wine, family, community—as God’s gifts, returned to Him in praise.

👥 Ordinary Life, Extraordinary GraceLaughter about pipe tobacco, gratitude for parish friendships, and reflections on the people God uses to shape, steady, and feed His flock.

Whether you come with gratitude overflowing or a heart that’s limping to the table this year, this conversation invites you into something bigger:a life of thanksgiving rooted in the God who never ceases to be good.

🎧 Listen now on Everyday Monks—the parish podcast of St. Benedict’s Anglican Church in Rockwall, Texas.

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