Sunday, November 20, 2011

Living a thanks giving life…

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I sit before my keyboard, tears in my eyes, as I realize that thanks giving has changed me,

changed my life.

Not Thanksgiving the day, but thanks giving the life style.

I started listing my thanks in my little green journal on September 27th, 2009.

“I’m lavished with love, grace and favor by Jesus” was the first thing I gave thanks for.

Two years, two months, and almost 1500 thanks later I realize I’m happier, more content,

more mindful of how blessed I am.

Thanks Ann for starting me on this journey of thanks living.

I continue to count my thanks

piling up gratitude day by day

in my little green journal.

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-listening to Laura Hackett worship

-His Presence

-painting

-helping my oldest daughter get ready for our new granddaughter’s arrival

-a cozy, warm fire in the fireplace

-driving up the Columbia River Gorge

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-the last of the fall foliage

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-the first snow in the foothills of the Cascades

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-dinner with good friends

-an email from my brother in Africa

-so much to look forward to:

Thanksgiving,

faraway daughters coming home to visit,

a new granddaughter due any time now

 

Gratefully yours,

Elizabeth


7 comments:

  1. I have been changed by thanks giving, too. Ann's book opened my heart to see living in gratitude is an all-the-time thing! I am holding tight to thanks giving these days - and every day.
    ~Adrienne~

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  2. thank you for this post. Gratitude.

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  3. What a beautiful post. Best wishes for a wonderful week ♥

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  4. Thanksgiving unto Him is the root of joy for sure! Congratulations on the new life to join your family soon!

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  5. so thankful to Ann as well....and awaiting a grandaughter...my first...
    Have a blessed week...

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  6. I too am being changed by focusing on all that I have to be thankful for. Laura Hackett is one of our favorites around here. And a new granddaughter arriving soon! What more could you want?

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  7. I too joined Ann 77 weeks ago and how it has changed me...I look for the blessings in all things and to be thankful for things that I have over looked in the past
    I am thankful that we can come together to share our thanksgiving and how GOD has blessed us each week

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