Shared from Gladstone's Library in Hawarden Flintshire

 

Gladstone's Library

In August 2002, Jim Cotter (priest, poet and founder of the UK Gay Christian movement in the 70s) began a project to list 1000 things that he was thankful for.

The idea, he said, came from ‘a suggestion made by Donald Nicholl tape-recorded before he died and printed in The Tablet on 5 July 1997'.

He planned on listing one a week, which he said would take him to his ‘eightieth year, in November 2021’. His last entry, his 585th, is dated on the 15th of November 2013, six months before he died of leukemia.

He kept his list in 31 very special notebooks which we now hold at Gladstone’s Library. Everyone who sees them says they feel inspired to think about the things they’re grateful for.

We’re going to share one of his entries every Thursday. If they inspire you we hope that you’ll share what you are thankful for with us. Maybe together we can get it up to 1,000…

What are you thankful for this Thursday?

#ThankfulThursday