- Sunrise and Sunset and all the hours in between
- The awesome food we get to eat
- COFFEE!!!
- My Internet
- My Computer
- FRIENDS
- My awesome and amazing husband
- My babies (all of them!)
- My Car! (so much nicer when walking is a choice)
- My Life!!!!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
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Monday, September 27, 2010
September 27, 2010
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!
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
September 23, 2010
- My Belief & Faith In God
My Belief &Faith in Christ and His sacrifice for me and all believers
My Faith in the Holy Spirit to guide me
My Prayer Life
My Bible (Life's Instruction Book)
That through Christ I have a one on one
relationship with my Father in Heaven
That God has shown me what LOVE is- That God has shown me what FORGIVENESS is
- That God has brought me into fellowship with others who are helping me grow my faith and I am helping them too
- All of Creation!
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
September 22, 2010
Today's Gratitude List
- FALL! I love the leaves changing and
HOW AMAZING is it! - Cooler Mornings
- Indian Summer Afternoons
- Long Walks with my family
- Short Walks with my family
- Playing at the Park!
- Pork Chops for supper
- Having a Home!
- Cattails
(serious Cattails are so awesome
and
I am grateful for them
because they make me smile) - The joys of Family!
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Sunday September 19, 2010
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Friday, September 17, 2010
Septemner 17, 2010
- Sitting, watching the trees change from vibrant greens
to beautiful yellow, gold, and orange - Brisk Autumn Mornings
- Warm Autumn Afternoons
- Owning a Car~
so nice to drive where you want to go - Affording the Insurance~
I can remember a time where
there just wasn't enough nmoney
to take care of the insurance for
the car so this is awesome - My husband has a day or two worth of work!
- Getting to take a trip out of town
- Clean Kitchen that i didn't have to clean
- Deer in the yard having breakfast
- Watching the squirells play in the trees
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Gratitude List for September 15, 2010
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....
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
September 14, 2010
- My son's facination with balls~
it brings a smile to my face,
when I watch his joy at being able to play with a ball.
To hear his squeel of delight when someone throws him a ball.
To hear him, as you are channel surfing see a ball game on
and he yells to go back to the ball game (football, soccer or baseball!) - Living in a world where my children all have the chance to be WHO ever and WHATEVER they want to be.
However I have had to explain to my daughter that although
she COULD be a fat British man
that it would take a great deal of work and money
and that I really think she could do something more with her life.
(see story at bottom of page) - Precious moments with all my kids.
- Precious moments with friends and other family
- New Friends and Old Friends
- Youth Group at our Home Church
- COFFEE~ without which I would still be asleep
- The aroma of fresh baked bread
- Sunrises that paint the sky in beautiful detail
- Soft breezes in the tress
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.
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
September 12, 2010
- I am grateful for a healthy immune system
that seems to protect me from a lot of the germs
flying around my home - I am grateful for good HOT Coffee in the morning
- I am grateful for my amazing husband
who will run the errands I need ran without grumping at me - Having good food to eat
- I am grateful for my computer!
So many of my friends live in it! - I am grateful for sunshine
- I am grateful for rain
(which by the way, we need a little of a
round here the river is so low) - My cell phone!
I am able to keep in touch with my friends and family
no matter where I am because of it - I am also grateful for the wonderful support system I have available to me!
- I am grateful for finally finding a home church that fullfills
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Friday, September 10, 2010
September 10, 2010
- The Awesome Medical Care System we have in the US
- Hot Coffee on a hard to get moving morning
- A bed with warm blankets to sleep in at night
- Awesome friends!
- A husband who washes dishes
- The Lord watching over my family
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
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
Thursday September 9, 2010
- Cloudy skies~
- Fall is HERE!
- Cell Phones
- Elizabeth~ she is such a joy
- Katie~ she is so full of life
- Joshua~ his humor is awesome!
- Eugene~ what a character
- Allen~ his infectious laugh
- My husband~ he is awesome (even if he denies it)
- Trust/Faith in God
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Saturday, September 4, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Og Mandino
And now, dear brothers and sisters,
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
September 2, 2010
- Long Hot Showers!
- Smell scrumptious body soaps
- Fab hair day
- Make up that makes you feel BEAUTIFUL
- Music!
- DANCING!
- Being able to pray for others!
- Living life OUTLOUD
- Raindrops and puddle jumping and rainbows and thunderstorms!
- LIFE! Life is so amazing and so wonderful and just BEAUTIFUL!
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
September 1, 2010
- Deer that lay under the shade of trees
- Squirrels that sit on a branch watching us play
- Cattails on the river bank
- Apples on an apple tree
- Blackberries getting plump and ripe
- Long walks with my babies
- Summer days fading into Autumn
- Youngest learning how to slide all by himself
- My Family
- My relationship with God!
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