130 Gifts

I have shared from the wonderfully enlightening book I just finished, One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp.  I was inspired by this book to start my own list. Don't know if I will get to a thousand, maybe less, maybe more, maybe I will just keep recording the gifts until the Lord brings me home...I don't know where this road will go right now.  But I realized that each gift, each blessing, little or big, is a God visit of its own.  I thought I'd share a few of them here, and maybe get my readers to thinking about their own gifts or daily God visits.  Perhaps it will lift your hearts to realize that the Giver of gifts is visiting you!

Today I awoke to the softest of light (and 3 little cats circling like sharks looking for food...LOL, the can be so sweet and friendly when they are wanting their breakfast).  My curtains are a  shimmering cream color, not quite opaque and the let the light filter through like a glow.  But the day is overcast so the light was so soft and quiet, it was beautiful.  A wonderful gift.

Relaxing here in the presence of the Lord, with His Word and the peace and quiet around me...another much loved gift.

Cupcakes!  I am ever so thankful for cupcakes...I love them!!  Sweet and lots of icing, and even better, some filling too!!

Finishing a long hard 12 hour day at work....yaaay it's over !!

Sensing the encompassing God who loves me, knowing He is always there.

A good and kind husband.

The wonderful, funny, crazy, loving family I have been placed in!!

My beautiful church and the fellowship I have there.

Amazingly blue of the sky.  Wow!!  Colors, so many colors in the world!!

Getting in my exercise.

And some of the harder ones....

Failing in what the Bible says I should be.

Disappointing myself, and feeling like I disappoint God.

Struggling to be a Christian...the type I think I should be

Broken house....more money to be spent on repairs.  Feeling like all the ot I work is going to be spent on that.

This is just a little bit of my list.  I am trying to remember to give thanks in the hard things too...."in everything give thanks; for this is the will of  God in Christ Jesus for you" (1 Thess 5:18).  And God is in these difficulties too.  So if God is in everything, then even the hard, the seemingly impossible, or the downright ugly is to be on the gratitude list as well.

Make your own list.  It helps to focus my eyes on the Giver, helps me notice His touch on my everyday living.  And that is the best gift of all!!