Iphone thanks…

I’ll post my Joy Dare gratitude list with Ann’s prompts as usual today,

but I find myself missing writing down so many other thanks worthy things,

and yet many of them I’ve captured via my Iphone.

like the white blossoms in the old mason jar in the photo above…

or the way these leopard shoes are my three year old granddaughter’s favorites

and how she inevitably puts them on the wrong feet…

or this photo that my daughter texted me of youngest granddaughter right after her bath,

oh that hair!…

and the sky at blue hour driving home from the church one night last week…

or what about my new glasses that my youngest daughter says “look hipster”,

(hopefully that’s not a code word for dorky)…

a warm, sunny day, enjoying time outside with my granddaughter…

and enjoying ice cream cones together too…

So many blessings, so much to give thanks for.

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I’ve taken the Joy Dare.

I’m counting one thousand thanks in one year.

I hunt for thanksgiving using the prompts Ann gives us each month.

If you are interested in joining in, click the link above or at the bottom of this post.

I continue to count my thanks

piling up gratitude day by day

in my little black journal…

#1869-#1887

3 gifts reflecting-

-I’m reflecting on Psalm 40

-glimpses of my daughter reflected in my granddaugters

-life-changing memories reflected in the photos of our trip to Ghana

3 gifts fragile-

-ministering to broken people

-lilacs in a jam jar

-life

a gift cloth-

-homespun kitchen towels

a gift steel-

-pots and pans

a gift wood-

-people gathering for dinner around our dining room table

3 gifts moving-

-remembering how the palm trees whip in the wind when it’s going to rain in Ghana

-getting back into the rhythm of normal eating and exercising now that we’re back home

-the sea, ever moving, ever beautiful, and the blessing of getting to see it in Africa

3 gifts ugly beautiful-

-blueberry pancakes a little too well done on the edges

-old bread boards

-old wooden ladder

3 gifts orange-

-Hope City logo, (our son-in-law and daughter’s church),

and how every time our granddaughter sees the color orange she says, “Hope City!”

-the success of Code Orange Easter

-orange roses on the info. table at church

3 gifts in dirt-

-two rose bushes

-four lavender plants

-mint, parsley, rosemary, and hopefully some basil springing up soon

 

Gratefully yours,

Elizabeth