Thanksgiving
Counting My Blessings
During November, our family often made an acrostic using the word thanksgiving. We'd list things we were thankful for, using words beginning with each letter. When our children became teenagers, words like telephone, summer, and ice cream topped the list. Now with grown children, I exchange a thanksgiving list with my pen pal each year. But...
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When Thanksgiving Gets Stuck in Your Throat! Not everyone will have a happy Thanksgiving…especially this year. Many are...
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Cleaning out closets every three or four months has become tradition for me. I take a day to sift through drawers, discovering lost sweaters, unearthing twelve-year-old jeans I vow to wear again, and taming an expansive T-shirt collection that somehow procreates on its own. I scour my children’s dressers to find outgrown jackets, blue jeans...
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Years ago my husband and I were going through financial problems, and I was distraught with worry. Then I read Philippians 4:6-7, which told me not to be anxious about anything, but to bring everything to the Lord in prayer, with thanksgiving. After I turned everything over to the Lord and started giving thanks to Him, faith filled me - and I...
No Comments » With the busy lives most of us lead, expressions of thanksgiving to God may seldom occur outside of mealtime prayers. Words of praise find few places to surface as we scurry through our day. We manage to squeeze in time to ask God for something, but how often do we just say “thank you”? The Bible teaches that giving thanks should be a priority....
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