"If all you had left today, was what you thanked God for yesterday, what would your life look like?"
Don't ya love it? I loved it!!
So compelling....so convicting.
I know the gratitude thing. I've heard it and heard it and heard it. But I've still failed to do it on a regular basis. What?!, you say. You, the one who has been saved three times! Not just my heart and soul, but my physical body from, not one, but two deadly stage three cancers?
Yes me. And I take for granted what I have and focus on what I don't.....many times a day.
Forgive me Lord.
Forgive me and let me hurry up and give You the long list of all the things I really, truly don't take for granted. Some of which I've come so close to losing.....
- my mind (yes, my mind!)
- my physical health (all the parts I have left!)
- my marriage (25 years....25 YEARS!)
- my home (ok, so we might as well be renting, but we're still in it!)
- the ability to finish raising my children (a job that will never be done so I guess I'll have to live!)
- our retirement account (well, at least the cats could retire with what is left!)
- 6 cars in the driveway, yes, I did say 6 (3 with no air conditioning, 1 with a drivers side door that won't open and another with some of the windows working, 1 with collectors plates and not because it's pretty, 1 with an engine issue, losing it's git up and go and all manner of dents, scrapes, bumps and wrinkles....and then there's mine, my beautiful 2 year old peach of a car that's only been rear-ended once by a teenager!)
- my 4 exceptional, beautiful inside and out, children (no joke here, they are my world!)
- my sense of humor (oh, by the grace of God, I can still find it!)
Seriously, I am grateful and seriously, the practice of thanking opens up a place in your heart that's so very peaceful. Because the One you are grateful to, inhabits it. And I know that I know, without Him, I'd have nothing.
And so I say, thank you and thank you,
Deb
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