November of Thanksgiving 30

You can get this button from Lisa of Lisa NotesIt’s the last day of November and the last day of the official daily thanksgiving exercise. I’m thankful for every one of you who participated with me. The full impact of the month of thanksgiving comes from reading what you all are thankful for each day—from a community of thanksgiving, women (and a few men) of all ages and many different life circumstances, coming together to thank the one true God for his many gifts to us.  As I gathered the links together, I would be reminded with each of your posts of something else I needed to thank God for.

I am thankful for your thanksgiving for small things—things that are often overlooked, things that we tend to feel entitled to, but are graciously provided to us by our good God. I am thankful for your thanksgiving for spiritual blessings, which are, of course, the greatest gifts we have. I am especially thankful for the examples of those who maintained daily thanksgiving in trying circumstances. I thank God for each one of you and for each one of your posts.

We have so many good gifts from our gracious God, don’t we?

Others thanking God today:

• Diane is thankful for our month of thanksgiving, too.
• Becky is thankful for undeserving grace.
• Kim (The Upward Call) is thankful for a month of thanksgiving.
• Lisa is thankful for fellowship.
• Victoria is thankful for the benefits of this month of thanksgiving.
• Rosemary is thankful that the Word became flesh.
• Trisha writes, “How kind God is to us to daily load us with endless blessings, too many to ever fully name.”
• Dorothy is thankful for snow flurries.
• Julana is thankful that she’s not a teenager. (Me, too.)

Update 8pm PST:

• Persis is thankful that she is going to see her family.
• Joan is thankful for the Christmas season.
• Lindsay lists some of the things she’s been most thankful for during the month.
• Staci is thankful for quiet days at home.
• Kim (Hiraeth) is thankful for this past month.
• Aadel is thankful for recipes and healthy food for her family.
• Elle is thankful for a long walk outside.
• Jen is thankful for fellowship of the saints.
• Becky is thankful for “God’s patience with me and His superintendence of my sanctification.”

What are you thankful for today?

I’ll be back one more time late this evening to add links to additional posts.

Do you want to participate, too? You’ll find instructions here for the ways both bloggers and nonbloggers can join in the thanksgiving.

If I’ve missed your post or messed up a link, please tell me. If you miss a day or more, you’ll need to send me the link to your next thanksgiving post.

A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part I: Questions about God, Man, and Sin

10. Q. Where is God?
      A. God is everywhere.

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November of Thanksgiving 29

I’m thankful for the advent season that we’ve just started. We’re anticipating Christ’s first coming, putting ourselves back, in a way, to the time before the central event in the history of the world, to a time when it was clear that the world desperately needed a saviour, but there was not one….yet.

We can only go back there, of course, in our imaginations, because we live on the bright side of history.  Everything has changed for us because salvation is already here. But it’s good for us to think about the time before—the dark side, if you will—because it makes us more thankful, more glad, more joyous, that  God planned, before creation, for that Light to come, and at the right time, the Light came.

Others thanking God today:

• Diane is thankful for work. (Make sure you click through and see the work she’s writing about)
• Becky has a long list of things.
• Kim (The Upward Call) is thankful for a finished lesson.
• Lisa is thankful for weakness.
• Persis is thankful for pleasant surprises.
• Victoria is thankful for flowers.
• Joan is thankful for her job.
• Lindsay is thankful for flight benefits. (I get those, too, and they really are something to be thankful for.)
• Staci is thankful she has people to miss.

Update 8:30pm PST:

• Rosemary is thankful that you’ve all been thankful because your posts have been a blessing.
• Kim (Hiraeth) is thankful for Spiritual Blessings in Christ.
• Aadel is thankful “that I worship the “light of revelation” Jesus Christ.”
• Trisha is thankful for the gift of sympathy.
• Dorothy is thankful for the Holy Spirit.
• Sandra is thankful for frost on the gate.
• Amy in Peru is thankful for a hard-working, God-fearing man.
• Elle is thankful for an excellent doctor’s report.
  

You can get this button from Lisa of Lisa Notes

What are you thankful for today?

I’ll be back later to add links to additional posts.

Do you want to participate, too? You’ll find instructions here for the ways both bloggers and nonbloggers can join in the thanksgiving.

If I’ve missed your post or messed up a link, please tell me. If you miss a day or more, you’ll need to send me the link to your next thanksgiving post.