Thankful Thursday

Already it’s Thursday again. I’m thankful

• for weeks, seasons, and time. 
• for time to spend with the ones I love, and time to do what I need to do; for time to read, and think and rest.
• for the daylight hours that grow my garden, and the weeks and months that grow my grandchildren.
• that God has determined my allotted time and that my times are in his hands.
• that God brought me through the trials of my past and that he will bring me through the trials of my future.
• that God who created time has a plan for it, a plan he is unfolding day after day, year after year, century after century, from creation to eternity.
• that God the Son, who created time, entered it, and died and rose again in history in order to redeem his people and his creation.
• that he will come again at the end of the age. 
• for the promise of a new day tomorrow and an eternity spent always with the Lord.