With Thanksgiving in your Hearts

First off, I can't thank y'all enough for weighing in on my last post! You are all so amazing! If you missed it or if you just needed to think longer, feel free to check it out and leave your thoughts. I can tell you that others in the Bible study have really enjoyed hearing from you all as well! So much so in fact that we've decided to share our topics with you every other week to get your feedback. So, stay tuned- on Monday I'll hope to hear from you on the subject "Waiting on God". More on that on Monday.

Today, I need to get back to my blessings. I was planning to do a weekly post on blessings on the week, and then let it go last week. Not because I didn't have any, I was just being lazy if you really must know. :)

So, this week I knew I had to do it. I challenged myself and I think its an important challenge. Little did I know that I would be handed some circumstances that really made me not want to come up with a gratitude list. But then I remember a sermon a few years back on Thanksgiving. Praise God from Whom ALL Blessings flow.
All Blessings- even those we don't want to count as blessings. We need to praise Him.
So, here I am.

This past week in blessings:

1.  Steve made it home safely from China. That was a long week, despite me being used to him being gone, I didn't like him being that far gone with that little communication.
2. Parent Teacher conferences are this week- I won't have ours until tonight, but I'm going to go ahead and assume that they will be a blessing. Our school is such a blessing to our family, I can't help but be grateful.
3. Due to number 2, NO SCHOOL on FRIDAY! YEAH for long weekends! Especially when we get to go away and therefore we will ....
4. Skip hockey Saturday morning! I know, I shouldn't be so happy, but when you have to be leave home by 7:30 on Saturday mornings, you cherish a day to just sleep in or hang out in your pj's drinking coffee until lunch time. (no, that won't happen, but its a lovely thought...)
5. Friends to have lunch with, talk on the phone with, email, and text until our thumbs hurt. I don't really know what I'd do without them. Its only a small handful, but what I lack in quantity, I make up for in quality.
6. Veterans. I can't even express properly the gratitude to all of our veterans and their families. Theirs is a sacrafice that I can't repay. Many blessings to those fine men and women.

I know there should be more, and I'm certain there are, this is a start for today.
What blessings have you experienced this week?

Blessings

This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Psalm 118:24

Too often I find myself not going through my blessings, just dumping my problems and worries on God, and saying a quick thanks for all the good in my life. And there really is far more good than bad in my life and I am forever grateful for that. Today I am rejoicing in the small things.

•  Jackson has completed a great season of flag football and we only had one crazy cold night- which was last night, and yet, grateful that we didn't have to do it on Wednesday night.

• Hockey season is in full swing. It does my heart good to see my son out there enjoying life on the ice.

• My hubby is home for 2 and a half days! Of course its prior to a trip overseas, but still, we'll take what we can get!

• Laughter that flows from Facebook friends. They are nuts and I love 'em. Most of them anyways. ;)

•  Not one lunch date this week, but TWO. That's a pretty good week in my book.

•  Books that just make me smile.

• Friends that will call to pray with me as I text about irrational fears and worries...despite the busy day she's in the midst of.

•  Rain/snow/wind/clouds- I know- I'm gonna get decked. I love those days when they come around once in awhile. I cozied up by my fireplace with a quilt and a good book and a cup of coffee. aaahhh....

• Friends that no matter how much you protest, will encourage you and compliment you until you just accept it.

• Okay, I haven't forgotten the other child... Miss Maicy's prayers really are the greatest. Right now she's praying for her missing kitties...they are lost in the woods and she believes they'll make it back out. That my dear friends, is faith.
• I can't believe I almost forgot this one... my camera is back! Repaired and healthy and new again!  Yeah!

How about you... what are the little blessings in your life today that just make you smile?