gratitudes...

Once again I am joining Ann Voskamp and The Gratitude Community by counting my multitude of blessings.

Hers is a must read... but I love this realization:

"“God doesn’t ask me to be perfect; He asks me to praise.”

I love love love that. Now if I can just remember it!

Oh and this just expounds her thoughts:

"I simply need have a grateful heart to give Him glory.


Gratitude in all things is the only thing God asks.

Can I take each seeming problem and turn it back to praise?

That alone is the one thing that is needful."

6. waking up to the birds tweeting their 'good morning'

7. sleeping with the windows open

8. getting dirty hands while planting flowers and herbs

9. for the doctors and nurses caring for Chris

10. for warm mornings

Multitudes on Monday...

Today I am joining Ann Voskamp and The Gratitude Community by counting my multitude of blessings.

"With the voice of joy and thanksgiving,
a multitude keeping festival..."

~Ps.42:4

1. the rain
2. the beginings of spring
3. the quietness
4. God's grace
5. the birds

Lists...

Every Thursday on Stacey Curnow's Midwife for your Life Blog she features Ruthie Yarme. Today she wrote 100 Things That Delight. I really love the post and as anyone who knows me personally knows I also am always making lists! It helps keep me focused on what needs to be done. Sometimes I get lazy or don't feel like that much is going on.. and I stop ... and those are the times that some of the simple but extraordinary things get left behind. Like writing the things I'm grateful for each day... If there's a list ... hopefully made the night before, it just seems more gets done from the mundane to the extraordinaier. I do have an ongoing list on my scattered wildflowers page ... It's a list of things I ❤ . I leave it open ended and add to it when the mood stikes. Just reading it makes me smile ...

Do you make lists of any kind? I'd love to hear the whats and whys of your lists.