Outrageous Grace...

"Oh outrageous grace

Oh outrageous grace

Love unfurled by Heaven's hand

Oh outrageous grace

Oh outrageous grace

Through my Jesus I can stand"

by Godfrey Birtill

We sang this at church today.

The simple words left me undone as the magnitude of what God did to reach down and save me 

impacted me afresh and new.

If this was the only thing He had ever done, would ever do, surely it would be reason enough to thank and praise Him from here through eternity.

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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)

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9-2-13-

-while out on a walk, the Hubs and I, as well as a nurse and her friend,

 walking right behind an old man who fell and badly cut his face (so we could get him help)

-playing Bocce Ball with the two oldest grands

-the family all together for a Labor Day bbq

9-3-13-

-starting a new She Reads Truth devotional on Daniel

-a package in the mail from my cousin 

-our Truelife Sprouts and Truelife Kid's teachers and helpers

9-4-13-

-our anniversary

-celebrating together on this lovely day at the beach

-amazing sunset

-getting asked by a friend I met at Jumping Tandem, to co-lead an (in)courage group with her

{our group is (in)life after fifty}

9-5-13-

-thunder and lightning and rain and wearing my wellies

-the Hubs sticking with his healthy eating and exercise even when I didn't

9-6-13-

-a safe drive home from the coast

-an upgrade to a new phone without a lot of cost after accidentally "drowning" my old phone

-watching the two youngest grands, (and youngest grandbaby being especially cuddly and snuggly)

9-7-13-

-back to beautiful summer like weather after a few fall-ish days

-the sound of a hawk's cry

-flowers from the Hubs

9-8-13-

-God's outrageous grace

-great teaching by one of the men in our church

-joy in the house!

-lots of new faces

still following,