I hope everyone has had a blessed two weeks of the challenge so far! As I was looking over my list just now to pick out my highlights from the past week, I was overcome with thankfulness to the Lord for how good He is to us each and every day. “Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together.” (Psalm 34:3) This past week I was thankful to the Lord for:
- My dear friend, Ms. Pat
- My little car, and that it has been pretty dependable and had very little issues.
- My piano student, who is talented and a joy to teach. 😊🎹
- My amazing, wise, godly parents. ❤️
- Sunshine after a rainy morning. 🤗☀️
- Hugs from a sweet little friend.
- God sending me Scriptures right when I needed them.
- All of our veterans who have served our country. 🇺🇸
- A sweet group of old people we’ve sang to for the past 9 years.
- My sister who has fixed my dinner for me twice this week! 💗 Thanks, Sarah! 😁
- My precious friend, Ms. Barbara
- Going to see a cute and moving Christmas movie, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
- Music in the car. 🎶🚙
- A beautiful sunset. 🌅
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Lottie made a walk to the mailbox the highlight of my week when she popped out of the woods to say hello! 🐈🥰 -Sarah S.
I was thankful this last week to get to spend some time with two of my sons during a Home Depot trip. 😊 -Dana S.
A squinty, sunshiny picture at our Christmas movie outing. 😜🎄
How is everyone doing with the Scripture memorization? I didn’t get this week’s verses quite memorized, but I was able to write them down almost every day. I’m going to try to get them solidified in my mind this week, and work on the new ones. 🙂
I love this verse from Hebrews and the picture the writer gives us in this chapter how Jesus fulfilled and did away with the Old Testament sacrifices, and the sacrifice that God desires from us now is – the praise of our lips, the giving of thanks to His name.
sincerely-amanda.com 
thankfulness to the Lord how good he is to us each and every day.
1.God blessing
2.give thanks to the Lord daily
3. the Lord is my rock and my fortress
4. promises of life
5. we have peace with God
6. Beautiful sunsets
7. faith through our Lord Jesus Christ
8. Good fellowship
9 . In the presence of the God
10.Hide God word in your heart
Rejoice always pray without creasing in Everything Give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you . First Thessalion 5-16-18.
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I am thankful for…A beautiful bouquet of flowers left by my brother’s airbnb guests which I separated into two beautiful bouquets to enjoy in our home!Getting to see pretty birds I don’t often get to see, and up close, in woods! A fun campfire.That I am fearfully and wonderfully made! Getting to see an 8-10 point buck at a state park! Siblings who listen to me process things. The promise of victory in Jesus by faith! an unexpected treat – limes! 🙂 A neighbors cat which I got to pet.
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I have so many blessings I could list out from this last week! Each has been so special and unexpected, giving me more joy then I could ever have imagined them bringing and each seems to have been multiplied into more. I have tried to guess what goodness would be in the next day and I found it was better then this simple mind could have comprehended. Such a loving Savior we have to know each day! 🙂
For a call with kind Joleen were we could speak freely of Faith, and fellowship deeply. For dirty dishes that pile up high for me to wash and make beautiful again as I think and pray and sing the songs from my heart. For a sweet confidant in Colleen who I may know to tell all my joys. For him who’s offer of courtship has made every day sweeter. For my small winter garden that gives me simple pleasure. And for the long happy talks with my Savior each night till I fall asleep, still in His presence. For all these and more, I thank Thee. Such blessings have been in this week that I could fill a book with it’s pleasant memories! 🙂 I am blessed beyond measure and it almost seems that life could not be sweeter then now. I have not known such joys that even the thorns can not hide the great clusters of roses.
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And if this comment goes through and dose not fail like last time that will be another blessing! 🙂
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I understand your P.S. for I have had trouble publishing my comments as well. A tip I figured out is that if the comment is too long and has a lot of lines then it doesn’t tend to post, but if I shorten it, then it will post. 🙂
I like your thankfuls! 🙂
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And another thankful I have for this week! – That a somebody I know asked to court somebody else I know! 🙂
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Thank you, my sweet friend!
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A few people have mentioned having problems commenting. I’m going to check on my end and make sure there’s nothing messing up on here! 🙂
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Found the problem! They were all going to spam and I didn’t realize it. 🤦🏼♀️ I’ll be checking that from now on.
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I’m sorry to hear that your comments hadn’t been coming through! Thanks for letting me know! I’m going to check and make sure it’s nothing going on with my site.
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Thank you, that is kind of you to look into it.
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Found the problem!! All of those missing messages were in my spam box. I’m so sorry! I’m not seeing a way to access the spam folder on my phone, and that is where I do most of my commenting, but I will be checking my spam folder each week now! 🙂
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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Week 2!🎉😊 Here are some of my thankfuls:
*The power we have in Christ to overcome the world just as He did! “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
*Our veterans whom we owe so much to🇺🇸❤️
*Sunshine after some rainy days
*Truths in James 5
*The opportunity we had this week to perform a concert and glorify the Lord through song
*A friend surprising me at said concert!
*The opportunity to play some rounds of pool🎱
*First-time movie theatre experience!
*The hope we have in Christ “Set your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
*Potato soup with bacon&cheese😋
*A heavenly Father who hears the prayers/cries of His children and who can sympathize in our weaknesses
The Scripture memorization has been going really well for me. I enjoy writing the verses down each day and having them in my memory to quote to myself during the day. God’s word is so powerful!🤍
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A few of things I am thankful for from the past week are:
I am not participating in the memory challenge, but I am encouraged that I have made improvements from last year in jotting down things each day I am thankful for. I’m thankful God gives us time to learn and grow from the past as we go through life.
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Among many things, this week I was thankful for…
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I read Hinds Feet on High Places earlier this year and loved it!
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That is neat, Mrs. Laura! 😊 It really is an amazing book, and it has quickly made it to my list of top 5 most impactful books.
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Ok, now I gotta know what the other four books are! 😁
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😁 I thought you might ask! They are…Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper, The Gospel Primer by Milton Vincent, It’s Not That Complicated by the Botkin sisters, and 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You by Tony Reinke.
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I remember Hinds Feet being a lovely poetic book. Much Afraid is a very relatable character and I love the good shepherd 🙂 I think I really liked how the book quoted song of Solomon a lot, for many of those scriptures are so lovely and Holy, both in application to the Lord and his bride in application in marriage.
I believe there is a sequel(?) called The Mountains of Spices(?). I don’t remember if I read it though.
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I made a typo: I meant that song of Solomon is beautiful allegorically about Jesus and His bride, and beautiful Physically/literally about marriage.
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Here are some highlights from this past week’s blessings:
”Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of Grace, that we may find grace to help in time of need.”
Hebrews 4:16
I am enjoying memorizing the verses each week. This week’s verses were a little more challenging than last week.🙂
One of my daughters gave me some good advice this week: When thinking of things to be thankful for and you think of something negative, think of one positive thing about that negative thing.
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Hello everyone! I love reading these thankful lists.
A few selections from my lists this week are…
-My parents’ anniversary!
-A quiet evening, with the white church down the road, the fall colors, the sun setting, the clouds, and the breeze…such a peaceful balm!
-Reading in Ezekiel (especially 14:23 and 15:6). Everything has a purpose – He has made it all so thoroughly, down to the tiniest detail and He does so still!
-Our chickies 🙂
-God’s abundant mercy – totally undeserved!
-Enjoying my little nieces and nephew!
-Being right here, right now.
-My Father’s great faithfulness to me and to all His own!
-And so many more…
Thank you for hosting this challenge, Amanda! It has been such a blessing! ♥
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I’m so thankful for…
my niece Brooke participating with me in this Thankful Challenge 💕
my sewing desk, made for me by friends
my cutting table, made by my dad
watching The Andy Griffith Show with my son Ryan
Ryan’s laugh and sense of humor
lamplight in the evening
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As I was reading your thankful list, The Andy Griffith Show was on.😁
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-I’m thankful for prayer. That we can pray and He hears us. He’s the God Who hears, Who sees.
-I’m thankful we can come to the mercy seat.
-I’m thankful the Lord is sovereign. I’m thankful His will is done!
-I’m thankful the Lord supplies our every need. If we don’t have it today, we don’t need it today.
-I’m thankful for God’s Word! It is sufficient!!
-I’m thankful God loved us first. We love because He first loved us!
-I’m thankful He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.
Ephesians 1:3-14
Spiritual Blessings in Christ
[3] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, [4] even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love [5] he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, [6] to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. [7] In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, [8] which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight [9] making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ [10] as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
[11] In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, [12] so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. [13] In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, [14] who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
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Well I unfortunately missed last weeks post as I was thinking it was on Monday and not Thursday…got my challenges mixed up haha. Here are my highlights from this week though.
*Pleasant interactions had with customers today.
*Life the Lord gives us each new day.
*Playing Pool with for a bit with siblings and a friend.
*A grocery store run with my favorite middle sister😜
*For the deer I was able to harvest this evening….and that my car was not damaged in the process of harvesting…🤣
*My boss who lets me borrow equipment from work.
*The reminder in God’s word to be careful in how we use our tongues.
Proverbs 18:6-7 (NKJV) 6 A fool’s lips enter into contention, And his mouth calls for blows. 7 A fool’s mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
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This week I’m thankful for
the colors of fall – proof that even death can be beautiful!
the older generation – full of stories, wisdom and humor.
the true meaning of a rainbow. God keeps His promises!
worship music, both new and old.
U.S. veterans and their families.🇺🇸
a starry sky and bright moon. God always keeps a nightlight on for me.
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A few things from my list last week are:
Weekly walks with a friend.
A big truck beeping his horn for us on our last walk!
A lovely Sunday afternoon spent reading.
The washing machine that washed my clothes for me while I read. 🙂
Being flanked by two fields of low white mist as I drove home one evening.
Suddenly seeing the moon shining down on me at a stop light.
Chicken salad sandwiches on croissants.
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Week 2 Thankfuls:
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