It’s the Thanksgiving Thankful Thursday! 🤗🦃 I hope everyone is having a good Thanksgiving week with family, good food, and reflecting on God’s goodness and faithfulness.
My favorite thankfuls from this past week were:
- Seeing God’s faithful provision in a very specific way!
- A fun visit with my 94-year-old great aunt.
- Finding things I needed on the sale rack at the health food store!
- A pretty, new Christmas song (Something’s Stirring – the Foto Sisters)
- God helping us to find my mom’s car keys after a massive family car key hunt. 😄
- Visitors at church.
- My brother and sister-in-law and niece and nephew being with us for a few days this week!
- Sweet smiles and hugs from my niece and nephew. 💕
- A package coming in the mail just at the right time!
- Thanksgiving food.
- A time of reflecting on God’s goodness and leading in our family’s life over the past year.
- A fun, new game (Codenames)
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As I’ve been working on memorizing Daniel 6:10 this week, I was struck with Daniel’s calm resolve to follow God, no matter the cost, and to trust God with whatever would come. Then I was reading the faith chapter in Hebrews in my daily Bible reading, and it was neat how Daniel was indirectly mentioned as one of the prophets “who through faith…stopped the mouths of lions.” (Hebrews 11:33)
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A few things I am thankful for that I noted last week include:
1. The opportunity to sit for a section of the CPA exam, and God’s blessing through the prayers of many friends as I tested on Monday.
2. Fellowship and a delicious meal of Mediterranean pizza shared with a good friend after the exam.
3. Some restful days before starting to study for another section of the CPA exam.
4. Birds and the happiness it brings me to watch them. Also the paintings of birds and landscapes in my bedroom that make me smile every day.
5. The conviction of the Holy Spirit, and the various Scriptures, people, and ways through which He works that conviction.
Daniel 6:10 took me by surprise on your list, as it is somewhat obscure when it comes to thankfulness passages, but I was glad to spend some time working on memorizing it this past Sunday. It reminds me of Philippians 4:6 which tells us to bring our supplications before God with thanksgiving. A heart of thankfulness in prayer often puts petitions in a correct perspective and reminds us of the depth of what we have in the Lord.
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My highlights this week include:
1. Sleep!
2. Deep conversations with my siblings.
3. Thanksgiving food!
4. Christmas music!
5. Future travel plans coming together nicely.
6. A very nice job.
7. Cold weather for Thanksgiving!
8. Books that make me rethink my worldview.
9. Catching up with some friends that I haven’t seen in a while.
10. Chocolate covered pecans!
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My favorite thankful past week were
1 visitor at church
2 Thanksgiving meal at Dannie house
3 we had fun visiting 94year old my aunt
4 Seeing God’s protection in any way
5 thankful for his blessing
Philippines 4-6
Pray and supplication
But in everything in by prayer
Made known unto God
Keep your Heart and mind Christ Jesus
Peace of God which passeth all Understanding
God of peace be with you
Praise
We have Joy in our hearts
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Happy day-after Thanksgiving! I hope you all had a very special day, reflecting on our Father’s rich blessings! Some things I was grateful for this past week:
1. a beautiful book that I’ve been reading, called “Parables of the Cross” by Lilias Trotter; and the book “Christ of the Mount by E. Stanley Jones, and its convicting word regarding the Beatitudes.
2. our kind mail carrier who does his job thoughtfully and cheerfully. (we ship from home, so mail pickups are a blessing!)
3. my niece saying “I love you” and giving hugs🤗
4. I am forgiven, like the servant who owed ten thousand talents in Matthew 18:21-35!! What a merciful Father we serve!!
5. a beautiful Sunday with family and family in Christ, and the POWERFUL messages on trusting in the Lord, faith and going where He leads (like Abraham, Noah, Hudson Taylor, etc.), and deep humility as Christ demonstrated to us.
6. my job.😊 I love working with Wolf Valley Forge!
Thank you so much for doing this “challenge” and for all of your joyful encouragement, Amanda!! I hope everyone has a very blessed weekend!
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❤️☺️- #3!
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I hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving! We had a very special time with family, and there was much to be thankful for this week:
1. The tremendous blessing and encouragement it was to watch the National Bible Bee last week and see such mature young people who have a love and passion for the Lord and His Word.
2. A night sky full of stars! There had been several cloudy nights and I missed seeing them. 🤩
3. Getting to see some former members of the Melody Boys Quartet- our childhood heroes and friends in Southern Gospel music!
4. The powerful chapter of Nehemiah 9.
5. Family coming in for Thanksgiving!
6. My one-year old nephew smiling and calling me “Ra-Ra” every time he saw me. ❤️
7. Naps!
8. A FUN game night!
9. Siblings who like to stay up late talking.
10. Encouraging music!
I didn’t get to memorize the verses for last week, but I did read them and was encouraged by Daniel’s example in prayer and thanksgiving. I was stuck that his boldness to obey the Lord instead of the king came from the truth in Psalm 95:3, our other memory passage- “For the LORD is the great God, and the great King above all gods.” It didn’t matter that an earthly king had commanded something, because he served someone greater- the King of kings!
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Happy Thanksgiving!🧡😊
I’m thankful for…
1. All of God’s abundant blessings He showers upon us
2. A wonderful Thanksgiving week with family ❤️
3. Time spent with my sweet niece and nephew 🥰
4. The sunshine!
5. Two new shirts
6. Discovering a new game, Codenames
7. Guests at church
8. God’s beautiful creation 🌅
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Here are a few of the things I was thankful for this week!
1. Nice weather to get some work done after two days of nasty weather.
2. Getting to see the Ellis family in concert and have a jam session afterwards.
3. Knocking out a bush trimming job that had been on our schedule for a while.
4. For my brother Jared whose birthday was this week! He’s my financial advisor…😌😂
5. For the Church family the Lord has blessed me with.
6. Getting to visit with family this week!
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