The annual gratitude program for the Grinnell Regional
Medical Center’s Senior Education Program is set for Monday, Nov. 16. The
featured speaker will be Rob Cabelli, Associate Chaplain and Rabbi at Grinnell
College, sharing “Renewing Gratitude, Restoring Grace: Exploring the Deep
Spiritual and Moral Connections between Thankfulness, Integrity, and
Well-being.”
Cabelli will prompt reflection and conversation
on the nature of well-being. He will explore the role of simple gratitude, as
an expression of both intention and habit, in reshaping how we look upon
ourselves and others and informing how we relate to the simple fact, and
enormous challenge, of our existence and our mortality. He will suggest
that infusing gratitude into our lives is a starting point, a necessary
corrective to the obsession with material accomplishments and disappointments
enforced by our societal conditioning. Cabelli will defend the proposition
that we cannot hope to find and sustain harmony and integrity within
ourselves, let alone pass a civil and sustainable world on to those who follow
us, if we are unable to appreciate and ascribe value to all else with which we
share this earth.
This program is
free and open to the public. It will be held at 10 a.m. in the Drake Community
Library, with refreshments beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Parking is available at the Drake Community Library,
along Park Street, on Fifth Avenue, and in the First Presbyterian Church
parking lot. Seniors needing transportation may call GRMC Communications and
Development at 641-236-2593 by the Thursday before the program.
If you are a person with a disability who requires
special assistance, please call 641-236-2593. For more information about
upcoming speakers, please check GRMC’s website at www.grmc.us.
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