Thanksgiving Thursday - September 10, 2015

Welcome to my new weekly feature, Thanksgiving Thursday, where I will be sharing blessings I have received throughout the week.

Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous;

    it is fitting for the upright to praise him.

Psalm 33:1

Counting my blessings one by one:

• A spur of the moment visit with a dear sister-in-the-Lord who I hadn't seen in a long time; watching her hold and enjoy my granddaughter; sitting and enjoying lemonade in her backyard, and thinking back to when our children were little and all the memories her home holds.

• Visiting with friends who my husband and I hadn't fellowshipped with in a very long time; enjoying a picture perfect day together on their beautiful patio surrounded by pretty flowers and listening to a trickling fountain savoring good food and good conversation; laughing so hard at a story my friend told to the point that I couldn't breathe, lol; cherishing the moments of the day with our friends, and then closing our time together in sweet prayer for our families and ourselves.

• Babysitting my granddaughter for the day; me and my husband bringing her to the park to enjoy the breezes and the leaves that she loves to look at; laughing when she had a blow out and we had to change her diaper and entire outfit; and marveling at how much life has changed in a year, and all the blessings that resulted.

• A computer that hadn't worked in over a year and made activities related to blogging go at a snails pace that is finally fixed; the Lord giving me insight and guiding me to find the answers I needed in just 30 minutes on how to fix it, resulting in a computer speed that is faster than it has been in a very long time; and the ability to complete blog related tasks in half the time as before

• God's provision in words as I write blog posts

• Chocolate Cream Pie - Enough said!  ;-)

• My bank catching the fraudulent activity on my debit card, alerting me and being so accommodating and easy to work with

• Being part of a blogging community that rallied around a dear sister blogger in prayer

• Air conditioners that cool our house during this very unusual New England sultry September weather

• Late summer rains falling after a long dry spell, quenching the parched grass

• Walking outside on the deck as a dove and I startled each other, hearing her wings flapping away and me twirling around ducking,and laughing at what my display would have looked like to an onlooker

• A beautiful park in town to enjoy evening walks and sunsets with my husband

Praising God for His many blessings this past week.

A joy that is shared is a joy made double.

Proverb

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