Today my gratitude is all about the wonderful and amazing world around us~ yesterday my family and I went for a drive in the forest. We saw beautiful lakes with trout literally jumping out of the water, we saw butterflies, woodpeckers, chipmunks, trees trees and more trees~ it was all just so amazing nad awesome and magestic! God has been good to us, giving us so much beauty that we often miss. I am grateful for being able to see the weathered bit of drift wood that was on the shore of one of the lakes we went to. To see how time and water took a limb of a tree and formed it into something that looked like human hands had smoothed and polished it. But it was God's hands who did it! I am grateful for that burnt tree that looked like a little black bear standing next to the road. I am grateful for the fish we caught, that will fill our bellies tonight at dinner time. I love living in my mountains! Thank You God for making it so!
Today's Gratitude List
SO today I am not making a list~ but I want to share with you just how grateful I am that God created me to have free will, that I am given the ability and all the tools needed to make the choices in my life. Then God placed me in the USA. A place where I continue to have free-will as a legal right.
Yeah there are laws and rules that give me direction and hey, I don't have to listen to the law or rules if I don't mind paying the consequences because I have this free will thing going on in my life.
Seriously, next time you have a chance, really think about how great this life is that we have, that we are able to make our own choices about our words, actions, etc and not subject to the puppet control of another....
Story from above:
One day my daughter is in a counselors office. Counselor very seriously asks her what she wants to be when she grows up. She replies "A Fat British Man" the counselor told her it was impossible. Very indignant, she stands up, tells him he is wrong, because her Mommy and Daddy told her she could be anything in the world that she wanted to be. Just a note on how literal our children can take our comments.
My list is long, but I wanted to take and explain just how grateful I am to live in the time and place that I live. Although life is not always perfect and there are many things that could be changed in my little corner of the world I feel ever so blessed by God to be living here and now. To have access to medical care when my child is sick in the middle of the night, to be able to drive to the hospital in a matter of minutes, to be seen by a competant doctor. I feel blessed to live where there is electricity and running water and all those
