PRAISE and GRATITUDE!

This morning I am EVER so GRATEFUL for first the Father! God is over the TOP in His love for us!
1 John 3:1
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
John 3:16 
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

I am GRATEFUL for Christ, who came and who gave up His life so that I could have that relationship with OUR Father!

I am grateful for the Holy Spirit who guides me, comforts me, and assists me in this journey on earth!

How amazing it is that God is so complete and did all this for me! and YOU!

Saturday Morning Coffee Time

Spectacular Saturday Dear Readers!

What an amazing day the Lord has made! Today I am so grateful for the seasons in life- winter is slowly going away and spring is beginning and WOW! Those who know me, know snow is my favorite weather, so I really enjoy winter.... yet there is something SPECTACULAR about spring! Oh and summer too (although I do not like hot weather I love the warm summer days that have a light breeze or being able to splash in the river... yes indeed GOOD things happen in summer!) and fall is absolutely amazing too! Seasons... THANK YOU FATHER GOD!

Our life has seasons also and as I experience each season YAY!!!! God is GOOD! Every season a little different but oh so amazing with delights unique to the season! THANK YOU FATHER GOD for the seasons of life!

This morning is a rainy spring day and I intend to make it SPECIAL! A day for making some memories of this beautiful season! THANK YOU FATHER GOD!

FUNTASTIC FRIDAY!!!!

Good Morning Dear Readers! What are five things you do that are really FUN!? I was thinking this morning that we forget to be grateful for the FUN in our lives!

For me, my top five are:

1. PUDDLE JUMPING
2. DANCING IN THE RAIN
3. SNOW PLAY (snowball fights, building a snowman, sledding, skiing, like it all!)
4. POOH STICKS
5. FLYING KITES 

Oh yes indeed I am SO grateful that I get to have so much fun in my life!

Nothing can separate me from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus my Lord.

I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
I believe the Word of God in my heart, and as I speak in faith, mountains will move and circumstances will change
God gives me wisdom in all my work and makes all my endeavors effective.
God’s love working through me makes me a blessing everywhere I go.
I’m blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
Heavenly Father, I bless You and I praise You today, and with all that is within me, I bless Your Holy Name
Thanks be to God, who gives me the victory through my Lord Jesus Christ!
I bring the presence of God with me everywhere I go, because He is with me, and lives in me.
Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law, and therefore I received the blessing of Abraham by faith.
The Lord God sets me high above all the nations of the earth;
I live in the obedience of faith and all these blessings come on me and overtake me.
I’m blessed in the city and in the country.
My family is blessed; the peace of God rules in my home.
The produce of my ground is blessed;
Even our family pets are blessed!
Our food supplies and food stores are blessed; we eat food without scarcity, and we lack nothing.
I’m blessed when I come in and when I go out.
The Lord causes my enemies who rise up against me to be defeated before me; they come out against me one way, and flee before me seven ways.
The Lord commands the blessing on all my storage places: My cupboards, my closets, and my bank accounts.
He blesses all the work of my hands; I do my work joyfully as unto the Lord; 
Everything I do, I do in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.
I am blessed in the land that the Lord my God gives me.
The Lord has established me as holy, sanctified and set apart for Himself; I keep the commandments of the Lord and walk in His ways.
All the people of the earth recognize the blessing and the presence of God in my life.
The Lord makes me abound in prosperity; He multiplies me by His blessing on all my income-producing ventures.
The Lord opens the windows of heaven and pours out His blessing on my land and on all the work of my hands.
I have enough to give and lend, and I have no need to borrow.
The Lord makes me the head and not the tail;
I am only above and not underneath.
I serve the Lord with joy and gladness of heart for the abundance of all things.

Thursday

Let the rain kiss you.  Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.  Let the rain sing you a lullaby.  ~Langston Hughes

GOOD MORNING! Looks like rain outside ☂ PRAISE THE LORD! Yes I really like rain! Especially this time of year! It is filling our rivers, nourishing the ground, and refreshing my day. 

Have you ever thought about being thankful for weather? Not just the sunshine but the rain and the snow and the hail and the winds and the ice and just ALL of it! Today I really want to THANK the LORD for weather... 

Wednesday

GOOD MORNING GOD!

WOW! This human experience is so AMAZING! How blessed is my life because God has chosen ME to be His daughter? Seriously! There may be a few things in my life missing that I would like to see happen, but over all OH WOW! To count the wonders in my daily life? OVERFLOW!!!!

God has made ways where I could see no way- BLESSED - God has opened the window of heaven and poured out blessing after blessing after blessing and now my cup overflows!

Even in the moments of "lack"- when things that I really think I need in life are missing- when I look back, I can see the BLESSING God was giving me during that time.

My daughter has a heart to go on a mission- she feels the tug to visit foreign countries to minister to other children, She wants to take them Jesus, food, water, clothes, and any thing else they might need that they don't have. She knows what it is to have plenty and she knows what it is to go without. She is able to relate to the needs of others because she has gone without. PRAISE GOD!

Today- as I sit in my little home, my 3 babies here with me, with plenty of food to see us through, having our basic needs met, I am SO GRATEFUL to GOD! February 14th I could never have seen that we would be here today... GOD IS GOOD! And HE BLESSES! And I am OVERWHELMED at His LOVE for me!

That LOVE is so amazing! Now, if I can just go forward and share the LOVE HE has given me with others!

Lilacs and Tea

~Good Morning~
This Morning I am grateful for lilacs and tea - there is a childhood memory of lilacs on the table while my great grandmother poured tea. I was maybe 5 at the time. I don't remember a lot about that day but what I remember was sitting with grandma having tea and lilacs in bloom...

Memories

Those delightful things that God has given us to remember all the moments of goodness and love in our life. Today I could list a million memories that are so good... Today I still love lilacs and from other memories of my life you will see me smile every time I see Eeyore, when I hear a piano playing old time Christian Hymns, when I smell the aroma of a cherry cigar or pipe tobacco...

Today I am grateful for those memories that make me smile....