SATURDAY SHORT: RHYMING!

STAY FAITHFUL AND GRATEFUL TO HIM!

If rhyming helps to remember---use it!

IN EVERYTHING..GIVE THANKS!

IN EVERYTHING..GIVE THANKS!

4 words that say it all!

As today began, our horn of plenty, aka cornucopia from harvest days, was overflowing! 10 of family and friends coming for Thanksgiving. 

All sharing in the bounty of bringing and enjoying!

Daughter called..... sick....unable to come or make food. 

Jack has fever!

Owen unable to help us move furniture. 

Prayers needed for healing---comfort & strength! 

-4 coming. 

Run to store necessary to replenish with whatever's left on shelf.

Making do is what we'll do......delivering food to them too.

4 words that say it all!

IN EVERYTHING..........GIVE THANKS!

TIMELY THANKFUL THURSDAY

No time. No panic. No pressure. 

Having a "blended" cuppa this Thursday morn.

A BIG spoonful of gra-TEA-tude stirred in to my at-TEA-tude cuppa.

Trying not to slosh---

FRANKLY FACING OURSELVES.....

10/19/12.....as we answer this Friday's question since the weekend will be reserved for writing. I will be tweaking the James 4:1-10 lesson I will teach next Tuesday and Wednesday.

I saw this sign on a St. Benedict's school tour a few weeks ago. 

It has certainly had me thinking, "what amount of my heart is filled with gratitude?"

Frankly, "Give thanks with a grateful heart....." has also been "playing" in my head.

Grateful Heart

11/12/11 Grateful heart. My daddy had one. For as long as Daddy could make coherent speech, he would say, "I'm thank the good Lord for each day He gives me." He saw His days as a gift-- proof of all that the Lord had done for him, just by giving him breath for one more day. What a model for me!

"Gratitude. . .that heart-attitude that turned my "mourning into dancing" when I received the "C" diagnosis. The attitude of gratitude that I need more of in my life, now that I'm on the other side of that suffering. "A grateful person is God-centered and others-conscious." (Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Revive your Heart conference notes) A realization that God is at the heart of every aspect of my life will realign me with Him. God-centered = more gratitude. More gratitude = God-centered.

It's seeing more of God's hand of goodness in my life----eyes to see last night's full and glorious moon, the brisk temps that allowed me to wear my old comfy warm-up and the sound of Daddy's voice on a CD.

It's that praise tune that is whirring in my head. "Give thanks with a grateful heart. Give thanks to the Holy One. Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son."

If that were all He had done, that would be enough!