Thursday, December 3, 2009

Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday at Truth 4 the Journey

It's Thursday and time to join up with Sonya over at Truth 4 the Journey for Thankful Thursday. It's a time we set aside to list five things that we are truly thankful for.

It is such a blessing to be able to share what I am thankful for and rejoice with you in how God has blessed you as well.

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Here are my thankfuls for this week......

1) I am so thankful for what God has shown me during my blogging break. The enemy had such tight blinders on me and I had allowed him to pull them tighter and tighter. But God, as always, saw me drowning and extended His big, strong hand. I grabbed it and held on tightly because I was so afraid of what He would expose. What He showed me was painful and somewhat embarrassing, but He did it with such gentleness and love that I found myself thankful.

2) I am so thankful for each of my cyber friends/sisters who took the time to share their stories and extend their prayers and encouragement during my break. I truly never realized that others struggled with the very same things I have!!

3) I am so thankful for my wonderful family. I've been a bit under the weather this week with a head cold..or something, and I've not been my busy, somewhat perky self. They have all been so kind and understanding when the things that are normally done have gone undone. Even DS has been extra gentle with dear ole' mom!!

4) I am so thankful for the blessings that God showed me over the Thanksgiving holiday. I saw first hand how truly wonderfully He has blessed this family and all I can do is praise Him because I surely don't deserve any of it.

5) I am so thankful for the ability to see. This time of year brings out the Christmas lights and I turn into a 5 year old child all wide-eyed trying to take in the shear beauty of it all.

"He alone is your God, the only One Who is worthy of your praise, the One who has done these mighty miracles that you have seen with your own eyes."
Deuteronomy 10:21, NLT

9 comments:

Collette@Jesuslovesmums said...

an excellent list of so many things to be thankful to our wonderful Lord for. I am glad your blogging break has proved fruitful!
Hope you feel better soon.
Love Collette xxx

SusanD said...

Wonderful list and expression of your thankfulness. I've struggled with some of the same issues and God has Shown me many of the same things. The blog is for His glory alone and He will bring whoever needs to reads it. Blessings, SusanD

Yolanda said...

Deb, such a heart of joy overflows from with-in you. Blessings!!!

Andrea said...

You have a beautiful thank you list. Your heart shines through each post.
Blessings, andrea

Linda C said...

I enjoyed reading your thankful list! So glad your break was beneficial and you were blessed by it.

Happy TT!
Linda C

Stacie, A Firefighter's Wife said...

It's nice to knwo we are not alone isn't it?

What a wonderful list.

I'm thankful that it is peaceful in my house right now!

achildoftheking said...

Great post Deb.

I hope you feel better soon as well. Nothing like being sick during the holidays.

Nana Jul said...

I'm thankful that God is so gentle when exposing things in us! Praise the Lord it made you thankful!!
Julie

His Unfailing Love said...

I'm blessed reading your post. It's a wonderful post thanking God for what He has done.