I know not everyone likes thunder, but I’ve loved it for a long time. I don’t remember a time when I was afraid of it, unless you count the couple of times that it crashed right outside my window in the middle of the night and woke me up from a deep sleep. But anything… Read More Day 51 – Thankful for Thunder
I hope that you have all had a Happy Thanksgiving and that your weekend will go well! We had a very restful Thanksgiving day with six extra members of the family at our house. Two grandsons played video games most of the day, and the five-year-old granddaughter was as funny and giggly as ever! I… Read More Day 50 – Thankful for you!
“He leads the humble in justice, And He teaches the humble His way.” Psalm 25:9 NASB Notice it says that He teaches the humble His way, as opposed to the proud. Is it because He does not want to teach the proud? Or is it because the proud will not listen? I know, as a… Read More Thankful for the Teacher(s) – Day 49
For years I did not see the purpose of weight lifting for myself. I did the weight machines for a short class in college, but it did not interest me enough to continue on. Then I started having pain that landed me in physical therapy, and I started to understand a bit more. Recently, my… Read More Day 48 – Thankful for the benefits of physical and spiritual exercise
Hot water in a steaming kettle on the stove holds a bit of nostalgia for me. I still remember the old kettle that my mom used to heat water for her cup of instant coffee and for Dad’s hot tea before I was old enough to be drinking either one. She used that kettle for… Read More Day 47 – Thankful for Kettles and Aloe Vera!
The last couple of days my husband, our daughter, and I have been doing a lot of leaf cleanup. It’s another one of those jobs, like I mentioned a few days ago, where it looks so nice when it’s all done! It can be a very tiring job if one has lots of trees, and… Read More Day 46 – Thankful for leaves
More friends are dying, And we’re why-oh-whying, In Heaven they’re HI!-ing, So glad to see each other again! Why are we crying, Continually trying To keep them from flying To more beauty than we’ve ever seen? Up there no more sighing, No more aye-aye-aying, No more me-oh-mying, Reuniting with gone-before kin! No more they’re good-bying,… Read More Heaven Poem – Day 45
Do you ever wake up in the morning with every hair perfectly in place? No? Neither do I! 😁 Or maybe you are one of those who are blessed to wake up with gorgeous hair. This morning I woke up and was a bit startled when I looked in the mirror! One side of my… Read More Day 44 – Thankful for curling irons, hairbrushes, and hair spray
Where I live, lots of leaves have fallen off the trees and covered the ground. Yesterday I swept and vacuumed the deck, including the runners, which had collected lots of dog hair and crumbled leaf debris. It looked so much better when it was all clean! Then, today I focused on raking a triangular section… Read More Day 43 – Thankful for finished work
It happened again. I woke up way before I should have, way before I’d gotten enough sleep, and lay there awake in the darkness. Sound familiar? Then negative thoughts started running through my mind, and I was unable to corral them all. So, after about 45 minutes, I got up, got my Bible, opened it… Read More Day 42 – Thankful for the comfort of God’s word
Since I started blogging, I have read several times about living in the moment. It makes sense to surrender past hurts, regrets, and offenses to God because there is no way to go back for a do over. And it also makes sense not to worry about tomorrow but to leave it in God’s hands… Read More Day 41 – Thankful for Today
If God were as patient with us as we are with each other, I suppose He would have destroyed the world long before the flood of Noah’s day. It seems like we can manage to see the faults of others so much easier than we see our own, and we want them to change right… Read More Day 40 – Thankful for God’s patience
Hi, and welcome to Worship with me! This past month I’ve been trying to obey God in His call to write something I’m thankful to Him for every day. While each of those days is about thanking Him, I’m realizing that writing about being thankful does not go as deep as just being still before… Read More Worship with me #67
These past few months we’ve had to tighten the proverbial belt because there have been so many unexpected expenses. Have you ever been there? We’ve had: Wisdom teeth extractions, Root canal & Crown, Necessary travel expenses, Urgent care visit, College expenses, And an ailing refrigerator that needs to be replaced but is being encouraged to… Read More Day 39 – Thankful for God’s Provision
As those of you who have been following for a while may know, my husband and I recently took our son a few states away to start his freshman year at college. We said our goodbyes in front of the guys’ dorm at the beginning of September and began the drive back home without him.… Read More Day 38 – Thankful for Good News from afar!
“This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail, They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:21-23 NASB I love these verses! It’s so comforting to meditate on how faithful our loving God is! His love never runs out! His… Read More Day 37 – Thankful that God’s mercy never ceases
This past Sunday was a beautiful day with temperatures in the 60’s Fahrenheit. Monday, sleet began to tap, tap, tap on the air conditioning unit that is still in the kitchen window. Then an inch and a half of snow fell over the next few hours. The temperature dropped to 10 degrees Fahrenheit by Tuesday… Read More Day 36 – Thankful for Snow Days, Heat, and Adventures
It’s been a good day, really! But you know how sometimes you can feel fine, but you have this little rock in your shoe that’s really bothering you, and you just have to stop asap and get it out? Sometimes that’s the way I feel about unkind things that people say. Maybe they’re not even… Read More Day 35 – Thankful that Jesus loves me even when others do or say unloving things
Yesterday I put on an old Praise CD and started doing stretches. A few bars of familiar melody started playing followed by beautiful harmony. Next, the drums were added in, beating out the rhythm. It was so beautiful as the music built and swelled! I know everyone has their own preferences when it comes to… Read More Day 34 – Thankful for Music
“You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness. That my soul may sing praise to you and not be silent.” Psalm 30:11,12 I find it interesting how the psalmist refers to mourning and gladness as things we are clothed with. It looks to me… Read More Day 33 – Thankful for A Different Sort of Clothing
When I lived in Africa and France, it was a new experience for me to have walls all around the property of all the houses. That’s because where I was raised, most people didn’t have walls or even fences around their properties. We were on neighborly terms with all our neighbors, and I was taught… Read More Day 32 – Thankful for a fence 😀
It’s good to be reminded to love and appreciate our dear ones while we have them with us because we never know what a day may bring. I have experienced a lot of separations. Have you? I chose to go overseas for a few years when I was younger. It was a good experience, but… Read More Day 31 – Thankful for my loved ones
This has got to be the best explanation I’ve ever heard about what it means to abide in the Vine! This author, Signora Sheila, lives in Italy where literally thousands of vineyards are cultivated! Check out her post: If you’ve walked with Christ for any length of time you have probably experienced dry spells. You… Read More 4 Steps to Quench Dry Spells and Enter Renewed Abiding — Heartful Faith
When I came home from an extended mission trip, life falling apart, I started feeling my need for support from other praying people. Every time I would drive by the sign for a certain church that I had never visited before, something in my spirit would jump with hope. So, I decided to check it… Read More Day 30 of 365 Days of Thanks – Thankful for faithful prayer partners
I love beauty, don’t you? I’m so glad God gave us beauty! When I try to imagine a world with no beauty, I actually have certain images that flit across my mind’s eye. The first is the outdoors in the dead of winter, mid-January, Christmas decorations all taken down, and no snow on the ground.… Read More Day 29 – Thankful for beauty
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