Thirty Days of Thanks – Day 9: Focus

Thirty Days of Thanks – Day 9: Focus

I am very happily married. No, it’s not perfect. But I am so happy. Content. Thankful. In the days leading up to our wedding, I could find no fault in Jeff. And God help the person who tried to tell me otherwise. Of course I knew he wasn’t perfect, but it...
Thirty Days of Thanks – Day 8: Consuming Fire

Thirty Days of Thanks – Day 8: Consuming Fire

Like Pentecost Tongues of fire alight top trees Blazing red Orange enflaming Broad grey backdrop Sky But this fire burns downward And in Tips of leaves like wicks Flicker of a flame That consumes And grows Until It EXPLODES Wind swept leaves A fire that flies All the...

Thirty Days of Thanks – Day 7: Humbled

I’m finding it’s pretty impossible to give thanks and complain at the same time. One or the other crowds the other out, and I have to choose which attitude to wear. Giving thanks for . .  22. How this thanks-giving makes me more aware of my grumbling....
Thirty Days of Thanks – Day 6: Counting

Thirty Days of Thanks – Day 6: Counting

I started my blog a couple months before what would be the darkest time in my life. Most parents would agree there is nothing in life that stretches you, tests you, and proves you like raising a child. It also reveals a love that most have not known except maybe from...
Thirty Days of Thanks – Day 5: Bread

Thirty Days of Thanks – Day 5: Bread

Yesterday’s post title was “Daily” as a reminder that just as His blessings have no “spare days” so neither should my thanks. I got into quite a funk last night. I was tired, cold, and came home to a dirty kitchen and no electricity. The...

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