Living a thanks giving life…

I sit before my keyboard, tears in my eyes, as I realize that thanks giving has changed me,

changed my life.

Not Thanksgiving the day, but thanks giving the life style.

I started listing my thanks in my little green journal on September 27th, 2009.

“I’m lavished with love, grace and favor by Jesus” was the first thing I gave thanks for.

Two years, two months, and almost 1500 thanks later I realize I’m happier, more content,

more mindful of how blessed I am.

Thanks Ann for starting me on this journey of thanks living.

I continue to count my thanks

piling up gratitude day by day

in my little green journal.

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-listening to Laura Hackett worship

-His Presence

-painting

-helping my oldest daughter get ready for our new granddaughter’s arrival

-a cozy, warm fire in the fireplace

-driving up the Columbia River Gorge

-the last of the fall foliage

-the first snow in the foothills of the Cascades

-dinner with good friends

-an email from my brother in Africa

-so much to look forward to:

Thanksgiving,

faraway daughters coming home to visit,

a new granddaughter due any time now

 

Gratefully yours,

Elizabeth