There are many methods of collecting coins throughout the year to give at a Thankoffering service (or other worthy cause). We might put our change in a piggy bank or set aside some dollars to supplement our coin collecting. We might prefer to write a check.
I really like to use one of the Blessing Jars my sister-in-law and I made a few years ago from Mason jars. It has become a small yet important part of what I think of as my Blessing Ritual. My ritual doesn’t always happen on a daily basis. Yet it holds a lot of spiritual meaning to me when it is practiced. As I unscrew the jar lid and take various coins out of my purse, I think of the many positive things and even the challenges that transpired since my last deposit of blessings. I like to hear the slow clinking and clacking of the coins as they meet the other coins in the jar.
We should always count our blessings and be a blessing to others. Our hearts will become lighter and our burdens will be fewer. Plus, our Blessing jars will be overflowing!
This message is excerpted from “Put your ‘two cents’ in a blessing jar” by Annalee Crotinger from the November 8, 2021, blog of the Women of the ELCA. Today we commemorate Elizabeth of Hungary, renewer of society, 1231.
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