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Not Just a Writing Prompt

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Windows and sunshine. 

I’m not kidding.
This very sight is one of the things for which I give thanks – often.
Not just today as a writing prompt. Even though it is. 

How lavishly fortunate we are to have a place, a roof over our heads with walls and windows in all our rooms to let in that glorious light from the sun that warms and comforts us, that helps grow our foods, that gives us much needed Vitamin D to ward off diseases. 

Today, we live in a place of extravagance, and yet with all our extravagance without sun, moon, air, and water – we soon would not be at all. 

Could we today give thanks for the common things; things that we have closed our eyes to; things that we only miss when they are gone? 

So. For what are YOU giving thanks today? 

Just in case you are interested 48 times in the KJV we find give thanks referenced. 
Here are a few and a link for the rest. 

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I’ll Take That

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Roots in a glass.
Yep. That’s one of the things for which I am giving thanks today.

I harvested the last of my basil last week or possibly the week before, brought it into the kitchen, and deposited the few stems in a glass jar.  Many years ago in a Friend’s kitchen, I admired her basil growing beautifully green and healthy in a glass.
Later I tried it too — but failed.

But this time I have ROOTS!

Roots in a glass.  More than roots, I have leaves! Albeit, I do not have as many leaves, or are they as beautiful as Carolyn’s but perhaps with time, sunshine, and water more will grow. 

For now, I have these and I am grateful. 

3 They are like trees planted along the riverbank,
    bearing fruit each season.
Their leaves never wither,
    and they prosper in all they do.  Psalm 1 (source)

I’ll take that!

Psalm 1 is speaking of something more than my roots in a glass so may I encourage you to read it in context. 

 

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Soup’s On

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I am giving thanks today for more than I am going to innumerate here. I am a delighted woman. 

Potatoes. 
Yes. I am grateful for potatoes for soup. 
I had leftover chicken and all the other fixings for chicken pot pie soup – no crust. :)
I was chopping and throwing veggies in the pot and thought I need a potato.  I have no potatoes. Who wants to go to the store for 2 potatoes? But JT said he would and as he was leaving the drive – Misfits arrived.  Potatoes! Along with other veggies! 

Soup’s on! 

And later there will be roasted brussel sprouts.
Oh my, are they good with a little olive oil, onions, and carrots, a little spice, and roasted just right! 

We have so many reasons to give thanks. 

Psalm 37:  (CJB) 25 I have been young; now I am old; yet not once have I seen the righteous abandoned
or his descendants begging for bread.
26 All day long he is generous and lends, and his descendants are blessed.

27 If you turn from evil and do good, you will live safely forever.
28 For Adonai loves justice and will not abandon his faithful; they are preserved forever. But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.  source

 

And all GOD’s People said Amen. 

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Two Little Furry Faces

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Blue skies, comfortable temp, goats that bleat, hens that cluck and lay, two little furry faces that look up at you with pure affection, untarnished forestry, and hours of easy conversation with bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh; it is for these things I offer thanks today. 

Creation and the company of people we love are true gifts from The Father of Heaven who loves us. 
Amazing. 

Give thanks today, Friends. 
We have innumerable reasons to praise and offer thanks to our Creator. 

Psalm 118 NKJV  24 This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. source

 

And this verse as I took it out of context we often do. Even out of context it is encouraging and we quote it to help us on days, not like today. Do you know what I mean?

But let us look at it in context. 

21 I will praise You, For You have answered me, And have become my salvation.

22 The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.
23 This was the Lord’s doing; It is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. source 

 

He answered our cry for deliverance. He became our salvation. 
How did He do that? 
The stone the builders rejected became the chief cornerstone.
And Who is this Chief Cornerstone? 
None other than Our Blessed LORD YESHUA – JESUS CHRIST the Righteous. ( See 1 Peter 2)

Yes, indeed this IS the LORD’s doing and it is marvelous in our eyes!
That HE would save wretches like us! 
The DAY the Cornerstone became sin for us and died on the Execution Stake and AROSE from DEATH on the 3rd day. 
OH YES! WE rejoice in that day that ONLY The LORD could make! 
We rejoice for that DAY every day. Amen and amen! 

Now go about this day giving thanks for THE DAY!