Making thanks giving a habit...

It was before Ann's book, One Thousand Gifts was published.

She wrote about counting God's gifts on her blog and encouraged us to count our blessings too.

I started in 2009, in a little green journal.

I filled that up and am now counting my thanks in my little black journal.

It really is a renewing of the mind,

a transformation in the way I see my life and circumstances,

a life changing, or maybe more accurately a me changing,

habit to form.

It's Thanksgiving month.

Why not join us and make daily thanks giving a habit?

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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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10-28-13-

-got a lot done today!

-delicious pot roast dinner at youngest daughter's

-all of us walking to Starbucks afterwards

-seeing a young family we haven't seen in a long time and their new baby

10-29-13-

-God's faithful provision

-frosty night, sunny day

-some happy news!

10-30-13-

-an unexpected blessing

-talking to and praying with my sister on the phone

-finding a "just the perfect thing" Christmas present for oldest granddaughter

-eating leftovers for dinner that were actually yummier than the first time around

10-31-13-

-car troubles, thank God the Hubs made it to the repair shop

-remembering and singing, "I know that I can trust You...

my life is in the hands of the Maker of Heaven" when tempted to worry and fear

-grandkids in costumes

-great prayer time at church

11-1-13-

-only grandson okay after getting hurt at school and going to the ER

-oldest granddaughter making 46 baskets in a "HOOP-A-THON" fundraiser at her school...

(I might have been a bit pessimistic about her abilities and pledged a bit high thinking at the most she'd make 10 baskets...I could only laugh when she told me!)

-dinner and games and lots of laughter with friends

11-2-13-

-car repairs not as much as we thought

-thrifting with youngest daughter and a friend

-setting the clock back, getting an extra hour of sleep

11-3-13-

-new faces at church, God is doing a new thing

-going out for BBQ with friends and the two oldest grandkids

-time with the whole family at our oldest daughter's

gratefully yours,