November of Thanksgiving 8

You can get this button from Lisa of Lisa Notes.I’m thankful for work. I have work I need to do today—and probably tomorrow, too—and I’m not enthusiatic about it. In fact, I get tense just thinking about it. Last week I filled holes, sanded the filler, and painted the top part of the dining room walls. (I have a chair rail dividing top from bottom.) The painting was fun because I was excited to see the finished results. (Which reminds me: I’m also thankful for CIL paint colours Misty Glen and Chalk.) Now, today, I need to  put things back on the newly painted walls, which is turning out to be a big job because I’m changing things up as I go. Then I need to restore order to the rest of the house. I let it get embarassingly disordered and dirty around here while I focused my attention on the paint job. This is the part of the whole job that I’m not finding fun.

But work‚ even work we don’t like, is a good thing. It gives purpose to our lives—purpose to my life—and I’m thankful for it. And when it’s all done, I’ll be thankful for that, too.

Others thanking God today:

• Diane is thankful for fine new hymn writers.
• Trisha is thankful for life in pictures.
• Joan is thankful for God’s peace.
• Becky is has a whole list of things she’s thankful for.
• Lisa is thankful for that God’s presence is everywhere.
• Kim (The Upward Call) is thankful for Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones.
• Persis is thankful for a reminder in yesterday’s sermon.
• Victoria is thankful for our great High Priest.
• Kevin is thankful for music and singing.
• Melissa is thankful for her daughter.
• Jennifer is thankful for her church and for being able to be part of the Ladies Ministry Team.
• Connie is thankful for friends.
• Jen is thankful for sleep.
• Laura is thankful for memories of a simpler time.
• Hollie is thankful for memories in photographs.
• Dorothy is thankful for God’s word.
• Pam is thankful she was able to attend an Elizabeth George Seminar.
• Lindsay is thankful for wonderful time with her sister and more.

Update 8pm PST:

• Rosemary posts a poem of thanksgiving.
• Sallie is thankful that God knows her frame.
• Kim (Hiraeth) is thankful for cell phone photos and the son who sends them.
• Aadel is thankful for farmers.

What are you thankful for today?

I’ll be back this evening to add any more thanksgiving posts I find (or that you point me to). As more people participate, it gets more likely that I’ll make mistakes in my posting, so if I miss your post or mess up a link, please tell me. And remember, if you miss a day or two, you’ll need to give me a heads up on your next thanksgiving post.

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

November of Thanksgiving 7

You can get this button from Lisa of Lisa Notes.

I’m thankful for the Lord’s supper, instituted by Jesus for us to observe together with the believers in our church in order to remember him and proclaim his death.

Others thanking God today:

• Diane is thankful for the same thing I am.
• Elle is thankful for her church and church family.
• Trisha is thankful that God has “has given me a heart that desires Him to be my Vision, my Wisdom, my Delight, my Treasure, my All.”
• Joan is thankful for her home church.
• Becky is thankful that “that God became man and dwelt among us, and brought salvation to hopeless sinners like me.”
• Lisa is thankful for light loads.
• Kim (The Upward Call) is thankful for good hymns.
• Persis is thankful for her church.
• Rosemary is thankful for Philippians 1:6.
• Victoria is thankful that Christ conquered death.
• Sallie has a list of things she’s thankful for.
• Connie is thankful for “for the desire, ability and freedom to study His Word.”
• Aadel is thankful for “the wondrous deeds that God does even today.”
• Dorothy is thankful that God created dogs.
• Pam is thankful that God does not change.
• Lindsay is thankful for her church.
• Victor thanks “our Heavenly Father for The Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus The Christ cause without HIM where would we be right now?”
• Norma is thankful that “God accepts us through Christ.”

What are you thankful for today?

If I missed your post or messed up a link, please tell me. And remember, if you miss a day or two, you’ll need to give me a heads up on your next thanksgiving post.

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

Sunday Hymn

O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing

O for a thousand tongues to sing
My great Redeemer’s praise,
The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of His grace!

My gracious Master and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad
The honors of Thy Name.

Jesus! the Name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease;
’Tis music in the sinner’s ears,
’Tis life, and health, and peace.

He breaks the power of canceled sin,
He sets the prisoner free;
His blood can make the foulest clean,
His blood availed for me.

He speaks, and, listening to His voice,
New life the dead receive,
The mournful, broken hearts rejoice,
The humble poor believe.

Hear Him, ye deaf; His praise, ye dumb,
Your loosened tongues employ;
Ye blind, behold your Savior come,
And leap, ye lame, for joy.

In Christ your Head, you then shall know,
Shall feel your sins forgiven;
Anticipate your heaven below,
And own that love is heaven.

Glory to God, and praise and love
Be ever, ever given,
By saints below and saints above,
The church in earth and heaven.

On this glad day the glorious Sun
Of Righteousness arose;
On my benighted soul He shone
And filled it with repose.

Sudden expired the legal strife,
’Twas then I ceased to grieve;
My second, real, living life
I then began to live.

Then with my heart I first believed,
Believed with faith divine,
Power with the Holy Ghost received
To call the Savior mine.

I felt my Lord’s atoning blood
Close to my soul applied;
Me, me He loved, the Son of God,
For me, for me He died!

I found and owned His promise true,
Ascertained of my part,
My pardon passed in heaven I knew
When written on my heart.

Look unto Him, ye nations, own
Your God, ye fallen race;
Look, and be saved through faith alone,
Be justified by grace.

See all your sins on Jesus laid:
The Lamb of God was slain,
His soul was once an offering made
For every soul of man.

Awake from guilty nature’s sleep,
And Christ shall give you light,
Cast all your sins into the deep,
And wash the Æthiop white.

Harlots and publicans and thieves
In holy triumph join!
Saved is the sinner that believes
From crimes as great as mine.

Murderers and all ye hellish crew
In holy triumph join!
Believe the Savior died for you;
For me the Savior died.

With me, your chief, ye then shall know,
Shall feel your sins forgiven;
Anticipate your heaven below,
And own that love is heaven.

—Charles Wesley

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• Update: One There Is, Above All Others at Tried With Fire
• How Blessed Is Life If Lived for Thee at Whatever Things
• Jesus Paid It All at Rosemary at Home
• Jesus Is All the World to Me at Wordwise Hymns
• Grander Than the Ocean’s Story at The Happy Wonderer
• Peace, Perfect Peace at Field Stone Cottage
• Be Not Dismayed at Hiraeth
• No Form of Human Framing at Conjubilant with Song
• Lord’s Day 45, 2010 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon: Sufficient for All, Efficacious for the Elect at Pyromaniacs
• Sabbath Keeping at Thistle Cove Farms

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.