This habit of thanks is a life-changer.
I realize that I’m only on the tip of the blessings that come from thanks.
Yet, here at the tip, while there are things in my life that ache, my heart is simultaneously overflowing with gratitude.
Gifts #99 ~ 122
A picnic with the Blessings on (likely) the last warm day of the year
The peace-making practice of prepping Thanksgiving food early
A 50 pound turkey
Working with my love on a daunting task
Learning to welcome help
Release from decorating expectations
Our Thanksgiving bush
New (to me) music on sale Thanksgiving weekend
Two big stock pots living up to their name, making us gallons of healthy delicious turkey stock as I type
My man on the way home to me
Those familiar arms wrapping me in love
A long-missed brother at our Thanksgiving table
Gifts of love
Family games and laughter
Dear friend come to visit
Snow covered world on Thanksgiving
Artificial tree casting away water/wood floor worries
Three-year old wonder at the Christmas lights/trees
The beginning of the Advent season
Advent Week 1 – Hope – When we take a closer look at the prophecies telling of the Savior’s coming
A thoughtful new Jesse Tree resource
Tracing the story of redemption
Free-to-play music to focus our hearts this season
God in flesh. Bent and raised for my eternity.
We truly have SO MUCH to be thankful for… God is so gracious in spite of us.