When the layer of dew evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground. When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was.
And Moses said to them, “It [...]
Along with others, I keep a gratitude list. It is a numbered inventory of some of God’s blessings granted to me.
But this is no mere list. It is a trail marking where God has been. It is beauty, it is art, it is a poem.
And so, I keep counting . . .
Robinson [...]
The week before a big exam I crammed in whatever facts, equations, names, and dates I needed. Come test time, I pulled from those bursting memory banks and performed, pencil flying ahead of the clock. Test score: aced it.
The following week I cut the twine temporarily tying down my mental cardboard box of [...]
And He said, “I myself will make all My goodness pass before you . . .”
- Exodus 33:19
Close your eyes and remember all
the Lord’s goodnesses to you.
Let each one pass before you
like frames in a slow slide show.
See and remember each one,
and thank Him.
Today I am sharing about gratitude at Ann Voskamp’s place, Holy Experience. Want to come over? Come on over!
Or, more accurately, redundant gratitude prevents an attitude of entitlement—one of my many lessons from counting God’s gifts.
I opened the birthday card from my husband and sons. Inside: several singles and twenty-dollar bills, with their written restriction that I must spend it to visit a friend. Knowing that I highly value both friendship [...]
Tear stains on a Bible tell us that someone in grief fled to the God of all comfort.
Coffee stains on a Bible tell us that she sat with the Word over morning coffee—a date with God.
Rat-urine stains on a Bible tell us that . . .
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A fifth-grade boy arrived to Sunday School early, so we [...]
Jetlag. Well, not really jetlag, because I haven’t been anywhere. But the symptoms are the same: heavy brain, blurred peripheral vision, slow reflexes, brain fog.
Jetlag of the spirit. I am not alert. I call them “cardboard days” when I am spiritually dull and dry. Just blah. If it were [...]
Wisdom in the comment box:
Isn’t it amazing how the longer the list of gifts is, the list of troubles shrinks?
- Sophia
And if the Gratitude Community included the fictional, then Anne Shirley would surely be a part.
‘Did you see all the diamonds those ladies wore?’ sighed Jane. ‘They were simply dazzling. Wouldn’t you just [...]
As part of The Gratitude Community, I am counting God’s gifts. My gift #769 was yesterday’s reminder*, a much-needed reminder for someone as prone to arrogance as I am.
God’s grace came to me not only nineteen years ago, when I came to faith in Jesus. God’s grace comes to me every day—today—and I [...]
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