This weekend has been a celebration of Thanksgiving, the
holiday where we remember how far God has brought us. How much He has given us, the blessings we
have received, the ones that are there for the world to see and who will rejoice
along with us and the ones too, that are seen only by our own heart and soul.
I love both kinds of blessings.
I have just written beside #659 in my journal of
thankfulness, the book where I record the gifts I am thankful for in the moments
of my day. I am aiming for one thousand written down gifts and recorded messages of thankfulness. Mostly I am thankful for God’s
Grace and these words are written in unseen script aside each and every entry.
God’s grace.
For this Sunday morning service our church put together a slide show of our people, saints
in Christ, holding up signs that are written with words of the things they are
thankful for. It is a beautiful showing
of thankfulness, love and blessings. Some were thankful for
books and toys, there were those that were thankful for family and for friends. Some were thankful for nature, for health and
for provision. I cried when I read that my daughter was thankful for her
husband.
I am thankful for husbands too, the two that are married to
my daughters and for my son who is one. I am thankful for those who have been
lost in body but are so present in heart and soul, Kevin, Gord and my own…John; those
that have been saved by grace to a better place.
Saved by grace.
Each and every day I feel the saving grace of God, how He
wraps His strong arm around me and holds me up, through every circumstance,
every failure, every accomplishment, every win, every loss, with my friends and
with those that are not so much. His
saving grace is always there, in my sadness and in my joys. These last few months have been good and I
really have been blessed, I have so much to be thankful for.
#659 I am thankful for all the joy in my life…and God’s
grace
I love that.
