How to Have an Attitude of Gratitude on the Night Shift

This simple, accessible little devotional should be taken like a medicine in daily dosages: repeat as necessary until your spirit is heartened. I was moved in my spirit and heartened in my commitment to act by contemplating these lives and these prayers. I trust you will be, too. Expect to be sobered, nourished, uplifted, and spurred to responsive action. In short, expect to be blessed and edified. --Dr. William David Spencer

""How to Have an Attitude of Gratitude on the Night Shift, with poetry by Teresa Flowers and narration by Jeanne DeFazio, is a precious collection of brilliant invocations of healing and grace for everyone in this world of trial and tribulation. It is a beautiful jewel to keep for everyone to read.""
--Ted Baehr, founder, Movieguide, Camarillo, CA

""In a world where the sacredness of youth is desecrated by abortion, abuse, and divorce, the poetry of Teresa offers us images of hope and dignity, the hope and dignity that only God's love and power can bring. Read Teresa's poetic words and feel a surge of the life of God sweeping into our broken world with an intimate embrace.""
--Michael Manning, Catholic priest whose ministry is television, The Word in the World, Riverside, CA

""The world needs the kind of simple, loving, faith-filled philosophy espoused in How to Have an Attitude of Gratitude on the Night Shift. It has a searing beauty that reaches deep down into one's heart.""
--Tony Duke+, founder, Boys and Girls Harbor, East Hampton, NY


Teresa Flowers is a Deacon at Pilgrim Church in Beverly, MA and the Director of Pilgrim Church's Community Meals Program. She is a contributing author to the book Creative Ways to Build Christian Community, co-authored by Jeanne C. DeFazio and John P. Lathrop (2013).

Jeanne C. DeFazio holds an MA in Religion from Gordon Conwell Seminary. She is currently an Athanasian Scholar at Gordon Conwell's Center for Urban Ministerial Education in Boston and the co-editor, with John P. Lathrop, of the book, Creative Ways to Build Christian Community (2013).