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Showing posts with label Thankful Thursday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thankful Thursday. Show all posts

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Thankful Thursdays

Summer is my favorite season of the year.  I can't get enough of the sun, the heat, the greenery, the hazy evenings, and the feeling of cool grass between my toes.  I long for this time of year.  During winters, I feel cold, motionless and bored.  I typically suffer from the wintertime blues (they call it S.A.D.) and can't wait to the first signs of spring so I can go outside and play.  My summer's as a child were so full of adventure...playing tennis with my family, long bike rides, ice cream and malts, water and amusement parks, drive-in movies, night rides, starry nights, BBQ's, picnics, bees/insects, summer camp, swimming and vacations.  Not much has changed since I've become an adult and I still enjoy much of the same things I enjoyed as a child.  To add to the list, I also enjoy music concerts on the river, art fairs, long walks, playing with Mojo in the yard, Farmer's Markets, canoeing, and hanging out with friends and family.  I particularly enjoy sitting on our patio (known as the oasis) and listening to the sounds of a summer's day...birds chirping, kids playing, sprinklers tinkling and lawnmowers humming.  Oh how sweet the sound!! 


For the past two weekends I've spent them with our wonderful neice, Jasmin.  We've taken her on a pony ride, to an Art Fair and to our neighborhood water park.  Her energy and spunk has been a joy to witness and reminds me of why summertime means so much to me...boundless energy, smiles, and just plan ole fashioned fun.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Thankful Thursday's - God

Sounds like an obvious thing to be thankful for, right?  

It should be, but so very often I forget to be thankful for God especially for who He is and what He can do in my life is doing in my life.  It's so easy for me to get wrapped up in the busyness and craziness of life's drama that I forget to be thankful for the one thing I know is constant and ever-present, God.  I'm so thankful that God is in my life now more than ever.  In recent months, I've re-discovered God and I am undergoing a major spiritual transformation that I've been called to pursue.  I'm so thankful that God has been patient with me and is allowing me to come to him "as I am" while slowly working within and revealing his power to me.  I'm thankful that he has provided me a tool and resources that teach His truth and his ways so that I can walk daily under his guiding light and protection.  I'm thankful that there is someone who knows me better than I know myself and is guiding my path, my interactions, relationships and circumstances so that I can fullfill the destiny that He has determined for me.  I'm thankful that God is there to comfort me when I'm tired and weak and that he's also there to sustain me when I'm strong.

God has and continues to be so good to me.  To him I say, "thank you".

"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever." (1 Chronicles 16:34)