Friday, October 21, 2016

Just Gratitude's...


Thank You God for all good things


... for misty mornings
... for burnt sienna and raw umber and sage green
... thank you for a view


... thank you for a warm home
... warm clothes
... thank you for flannel. I dearly love flannel.


... thank you for thrifted beauty
... for the hidden talents in all Your people
... thank you for pictures of streams crashing over rocks, I can hear it.


... thank you for this little potato bin - that it was once not so very tasteful,
and after a good sanding...the treasure was hidden beneath 
... thank you Lord for wood grain
... thank you Lord for potatoes


... for root vegetables
... for starch
... for lots and lots of starch



... for one lone pepper, growing and turning and bright red
... thank you Lord for my little garden
... thank you thank you thank you


... for a hard working man
... for a handsome man
... for a firefighter man
... for a pallet wood collecting man
... also, thank you lord for my little man Brady Bunches of Love


... for pigtails
... and little aprons
... and miniature animals and their cute little clothes and cars and water bottles and rugs and houses and wagons and lamps and books...and all their cute little things 
(I can barely keep it together when it comes to dollhouse goodness)
... thank you that I can't keep it together


... for helping hands


... for the bread we eat
... for life from You


... thank you God for brave kids
... for new skills
... for them being able to do all things because of You that strengthens them
... once again, Lord, thank you for autism. It's a tricky road but it's navigable because of You,
walking alongside me, holding my hand and theirs.



... for new little pets (the quiet, low maintenance kind)


... thank you Lord that I still have one little set of chubby hands left in the house...


... for new projects
... for creating


... thank you for a free costume and a visit from Cleopatra herself 
(I'm honored)


... for "putting the wash out"


... thank you that I feel rich when I see stacks of firewood in the backyard
... thank you for the little things that add up to be really really big



... for Mario and Luigi and their never wavering presence in my life


... for bare-feet in October
... thank you for the sunny days


...for baby Moses
... that she knows that story
... that she wants to play it all by herself


... for banana friendship cake sans frosting ... just pecans and honey and cinnamon
... thank you for a recipe that takes me back to sweet times
... thank you for the sweet times today


... for bear claws as big as your head (the tasty kind)



 ... and of course trees. Thank you so much for trees.






... thank you for walks and leaf crunching 


Thank you for being with me always,
that I get to just be myself everyday of my life
basking in your gracious love 
Thank You that You are good 
always
thank you for freeing me from religion and giving me friendship
thank you for freeing me from sadness and filling me with joy
.........................................................................................

... also, thank you for avocados.

1 comment:

  1. Beautiful, simply beautiful.

    "Thank you for freeing me from sadness and filling me with joy:...amen.

    Have a wonderful weekend with that beautiful family of yours.

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