12-24-2010

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie

Rejoice

Psalm 32:11

Rejoice in the LORD and be glad,

you righteous;

sing, all you who are upright in heart!

Today's Gratitude List!

I was going to sit and write a list as is my usual way~ but then I thought... really I am just so grateful for EVERYTHING in my life~ I figured out why I have been so lax in my gratitude list lately. It isn't an ungrateful heart. I tis the oposit, my heart is just so FULL of gratitude in all the Lord has done in my life that just sitting and writting a few things down seems so... just not enough.

Today I am just rejoicing in everything the Lord has done in my life~ my family, my friends, my home.. all of it just has me so happy and full of joy!

December 11, 2010

For everything God created is good,

and nothing is to be rejected if

it is received with thanksgiving,

1 Timothy 4:4

Isn't just AMAZING all that God has given us!

How can we not show gratitude for all of it!

From the creation of the earth, with all the plants and animals

to sending Jesus to be the Blood Sacrafice for our sins

so that we may once again live in the presence of our Father.

My heart just swells at all that the Lord has done for me.

It is with GRATITUDE that I say

"LORD, Thank You for EVERYTHING!"

My family, my friends, my home, my very life!

All of it is because the Lord God my Father in Heaven

LOVES ME!

December 9, 2010

New Tradition:

sit in a room lit only by the

Christmas tree lights

and remember that our blessings

outnumber even them! 

1. Family
2. David
3. Robert
4. Eugene
5. Joshua
6. Katie
7. Elizabeth
8. Allen
9. Mom
10. New Baby
    these are the ones that touch my life the most!
11.  My brother
12. My sister
13. My nieces
14. My nephews
15. My cousins
16. My Uncles
17. My Aunts
18. My Grandparents
19. My 3rd cousin twice removed
20. My children's father's
    all of these people have been a blessing in my life!
21. K-Love radio station (yeah I am serious LOVE it!)
22. My Church Family
23. My Celebrate Recovery Family
24. Those Amazing Friends who stand by me through it all
25. The Awsome Friends who are more like family than a lot of my family!
26. Rain
27. Snow
28. Sunshine
29. Wind
30. Clouds
31. Electricity
32. Running water in my house
33. The Internet!
34. My computers
35. Fresh brewed coffee in the morning
36. My Bible
37. MUSIC!
38. My Home
39. My Car
40. Our Truck :)
41. E-Mail
42. Facebook
    (yeah it really is a blessing in my life~
    connecting me with friends and family that I had lost track of)
43. A WashingMachine! (think it isn't live without one for a month!)
44. Hot Showers! (think about the people in Haiti! OH how blessed we are!)
45. Enough money for life's needs and a lot of wants too!
46. Enough money to help others!
47. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
    
    
    LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
    
    
    LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
    
    
    LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
    
    
    LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
    
    
    LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
    
    
    LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
    
    
    LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
    
    
    LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
    
    
    LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE

Because in all honesty is their ANYTHING in this world worth more than knowing that God loves us, that we love Him, and that we share love with all of God's creation!

December 7, 2010

Today I am extra thankful for this little life growing inside me!

So blessed!

Did you know at 9 weeks a baby has a heartbeat, toes, fingers, you can tell the baby is a baby

even though she is only about an inch long.

God is so AMAZING!

December 5, 2010

Have you thought about it? Can you remember something you prayed

so very hard for and didn't get it?

Wondering why God wasn't answering?

Begging, making deals, just everything you could think of

to get God to give you what you wanted?

Then one day~ you looked back and could see...

God KNEW what He was doing...

Today I am grateful for unanswered prayes!

December 2, 2010

December 2, 2010

How did that happen? How did it already become December 2010?

I am realizing that as a person gets older, the understanding of time changes and so time goes so much faster than when we were young.

For a child the period from now until Christmas Day is going to feel like it is taking FoReVeR.

A never ending 23 days left before all the fun and excitment.

But for us older folks... it will seem on Christmas eve that just yesterday it was Thanksgiving.

So what does all this have to do with Gratitude?

All of us~ young and old ~can take this way that time passes in our lives as an indication of just how important it is to savor each and every day. We can get so tied up with one day that we forget to loive everyday.

Today I am grateful that I am able tpo see each and everyday as a miracle from God~ where I can appreciate all the day has to offer,

that God has given me the ability to see just how important everyday is and freed me from living from one "holiday", "payday", or "iimportant day" to the next...