31 Thankful Fors

Make thankfulness your sacrifice to God,
    and keep the vows you made to the Most High.

Psalm 50:14

<sup>Looks like we are commanded to be thankful and keep our promises made to our LORD. 

Here are my 31 thankful fors....</sup>

• I am thankful for my children.

• I am thankful they are healthy, vibrant, clever children that cause all kinds of disturbances and messes in my type A world^.

• ^{I am so thankful I get to homeschool some of my children.} 

• I am grateful the LORD has grown my relationships with my children since I began homeschooling and even through the hard days we are glad we can educate at home. 

• ^{Thank you LORD Jesus for providing me the courage to say yes and the materials needed for homeschooling.}   

• ^{Thank you LORD for our home. It is too small, the paint is peeling, the windows leak, the basement floods, and the garage is listing a bit to the west but, It is ours. We have made memories here and we have made a life here. It is warm and protects us and although I don't say it often enough, I am thankful for this messy house.}

• ^{I am thankful for our vehicles. Both are actually drivable and that makes my life so much more pleasant,}

• ^{I am so grateful for my husband's job. He works so hard for us and we are blessed because he can support our family and allow me to be home.}

• ^{I am thankful for our luxuries, like internet access and cable tv. They are not necessary but they are so very nice to have.}

• ^{I am thankful for my church family because they are living and breathing God's command to love one another. They are family in all sense of the word.}

• ^{I'm blessed to be given such wonderful friends in which to pray   with and fellowship alongside.  Thank you.}

• ^{Thank you for Your Word LORD. It is my manual for life. I am still amazed at the way You speak to me through it.}

• ^{Thank you for chocolate, coffee, and ice cream.}

• ^{Thank you LORD for providing me the motivation, funding, and knowledge to move our family to a more whole foods diet.}

• ^{Thank you for intrducing me to modesty, LORD. My heart is changing and it is because I finally see I am worthy of respect and love.}

• ^{Thanks for letting the skirt wearing thing be almost painless. :)}

• ^{Thanks for opening doors that should be opened and closing doors we should not be entering into.}

• ^{I'm grateful that you spoke of law tempered with love.}

• ^{I'm blessed to having good health. Thank you LORD.}

• ^{Thanks for the joint pain, it will keep me humble and asking for help.  It will allow me to enjoy every moment that is painfree  with true thankfulness.}

• ^{Thank you for the change of seasons! What a wonderful Creator that He sought to give us beauty so different and yet so divine in each of our changing seasons.} 

• ^{Lord God, Thank you for the Great Outdoors. Thank you for the creatures that crawl, walk, run, slither, swim, gallop, trot, and fly.}

• ^{Thank you for camping.}

• ^{Thank you for my parents and the faith they instilled in me.} 

• ^{Thank you for never letting us 'feel poor' growing up. Help me to teach that to my own children.}

• ^{Thanks for books. For reading. For all forms of the written word which can be used for the enriching of the soul.}

• ^{Thank you for snow days!}

• ^{I'm thankful for my sister and brothers. They are my closest friends.}

• ^{Thank you Lord God for my wonderful husband.}

• ^{I'm blessed that you put us on the same path together and that we can share the burdens and joys found on this journey called marriage.}

• ^{Thank you Lord, For bringing The Hubs and I closer together even though we are for a time living far, far apart.} 

 

 So they removed the stone. Jesus looked up and said, “Father, thank you for hearing me^."

John 11:41

         

^{Thank you Lord for hearing me.}

^{Always Blessed,}

^{Gretchen :)}