Anticipating the goodness of God...

It's so simple, but such an important foundational truth.

God is good and He does good. (Psalm 119:68)

The enemy uses the same tactic today that he did in the garden.

He lies and deceives and gets us to doubt that God is good. 

(He's good through and through with not one iota of darkness in Him).

The enemy gets us to doubt that God does good.

In fact, he'll stir up the will of man to do all sorts of horrendous things,

 and then point his slimy finger at God and blame Him for it.

Start counting God's goodness in your life and you'll stop believing the enemy and start believing the Truth.

In fact you'll start anticipating God's goodness.

After all, His goodness and mercy are following you,

 chasing you right down to overtake you, 

every day of your life.

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In 2012 I followed the prompts in Ann Voskamp's Joy Dare in counting my thanks.

In 2013 I'm going back to the way I did it in the beginning,
just noticing and recording the many extraordinary blessings in my ordinary life.

And so I continue to count my thanks

piling up gratitude day by day

in my little black journal.

(and capturing some of them via my camera or iPhone)

#2684-#2712

1/14/13

-watching the snow fall outside my office window

-the whole family over for dinner

-homemade chili and homemade broccoli cheese soup

-Jon Thurlow's music

-listening to my two oldest grandkids read aloud

1/15/12

-having fun changing a few things around the house

-being able to run again after last month's sprained foot

-getting the grandkids ready for bed

1/16/12

-texts from the Hubs

-encouragement

-watching a favorite older movie with the grands

1/17/13

-a gorgeous day after two gray and rainy ones

-feeling better after a flu bug

-a friend's daughter giving me some great second hand clothes

-being able to share some that didn't work for me with another friend

-the Hub's meeting with his mentor

1/18/13

-sunny again!

-date day with the Hubs!

-the two youngest grands spending the night while mommy and daddy are away

-all the grands, (except baby granddaughter), watching an old, funny Jerry Lewis movie

-making some yummy, homemade granola bars

1/19/13

-baby granddaughter slept 13 hours straight

-her loving when I whisper in her ear

-only grandson and almost 4 year old granddaughter playing outside and having lunch and hot cocoa out on the patio in the cold 

-the Hub's help cleaning the house when the grandbabies went home

1/20/13

-a very special water baptism today

-praying and God helping me to find something that I thought I had lost

-a beautiful afternoon

Gratefully yours,