1,000 Gifts

My daughter came upon a weblog where the authoress inadvertantly started a wonderful trend that has burgeoned.  She personally made it her goal to try to think of 1,000 things for which to be thankful, 10 at a time, each Monday.  My daughter has now done that for her blog.  I had already begun doing it many months before I heard of the practice.  Because of some severe, depressing trials in my life, my mother had  suggested I write down five things every day for which I was thankful.  As life has eased up a bit, I've let that habit drop.  (Crazy, isn't it, that it was easier for me to be thankful during the hard times, and now when I have even more blessings, I forget to thank the Lord?!)  I plan to resume the habit.   I may share some of them on my blog.



If that link doesn't work, then go to http://www.aholyexperience.com/2003/06/gratitude-community.html

For my own personal list, to begin,

1.  I'm eternally grateful for the Lord God Almighty's sovereignty over all things.
I'm thankful to Jehovah for the faith to believe in His beloved and only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, who bought my salvation.

2.  My heart swells with joy to think of living in the presence of our high and holy God throughout eternity, unshackled by the fetters of sin, able to worship Him in perfection and in the beauty of His holiness.

3.  That the Lord would also bless me with abundant life here on earth before I die puzzles me, but still I am grateful.

4.  And, Father God, for the gift of your Spirit, who helps me live life the way you require, I thank you.  The comfort, the conviction of sin, the guidance, the discernment the Spirit gives is such a daily blessing, in so
many ways.

5.  Lord Jesus, for your Bride, the Body of Christ, I express gratitude.  To know the fellowship of brothers and sisters in Christ is a unique and special joy one can experience in no other relationship.  I find I have "family" all over the world.

For these things I am grateful.  In the name of our matchless Lord, Amen.

Gratefully yours,
Hester