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title: "Small Steps Blog Tour, Day 11: Gratitude"
description: Join us as we travel around the internet and pray together for Day 11 of the Small Steps Blog Tour! And be sure to enter the Five Minutes Alone contest!
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# Small Steps Blog Tour, Day 11: Gratitude

Oct 11, 2013 8:30:48 AM  |  by [Sarah Reinhard](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/sarah-reinhard)

Welcome to Day 11 of the [Small Steps Blog Tour](http://catholicmom.com/book/small-steps-for-catholic-moms/blog-tour-and-contest-for-small-steps-for-catholic-moms/)! Our theme today is Gratitude.

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You'll find today's "small steps" over at [I Have to Sit Down](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/simchafisher/2013/10/11/small-steps-blog-tour/). We invite you to join us throughout the day in offering a rosary reflecting on the Sorrowful Mysteries. It may seem to be counter-intuitive to have gratitude and the sorrowful mysteries paired together, but really, what better mysteries to have? (OK, any of them. True. But work with me here.) In these mysteries we face the biggest hurdle of life: death. And yet it is not a stopping point, but merely the beginning of something better. Without these mysteries, we don't have the glorious resurrection and ascension. We can't see Easter morning without Good Friday. And so, we pray.

The Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary:

- The Agony in the Garden
- The Scourging at the Pillar
- The Crowning with Thorns
- The Carrying of the Cross
- The Crucifixion

Don't forget to enter the ["Five Minutes Alone" contest](http://catholicmom.com/book/small-steps-for-catholic-moms/five-minutes-alone-contest/) that's going on as part of our blog tour!

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### [Sarah Reinhard](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/sarah-reinhard)

When she’s not chasing kids, chugging coffee, or juggling work, Sarah Reinhard’s usually trying to stay up read just one … more … chapter. She writes and works in the midst of rural farm life with little ones underfoot. She is part of the team for the award-winning *Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion*, as well as the author of [a number of books](http://sarahreinhard.com/my-books/).

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