Being Thankful #3

I’m also thankful for people God has put in my life. I’m thankful for friends that I can talk to and just laugh with and have a great time. I’m thankful for my pastor and the privilege it is to serve him. I’m especially thankful for all the wonderful people who are ministering to our children at church. One of the things Gaynel and I enjoy most is just spending time with the people who are so kind to partner with us and the Lord in ministry to children. I’ve got so much to be thankful for, the hardest part is remembering all of it! Make an effort to do that, and thank God for all of it! Have a blessed Thanksgiving and thank you, thank you, thank you, for all that you do!

Being Thankful #2

Sometimes it can be hard to be thankful. Last week we were having ‘house’ problems. As in appliances breaking or malfunctioning. We had a dryer go up in flames (literally!) and on the way out the door to church Saturday found out that something on our refrigerator broke and had flooded the kitchen. These unexpected surprises really had me wondering why I should be thankful for them. What I realized was that I’d better be thankful that God allowed us to be home when they happened, so we didn’t come home to a house that was burnt down or flooded! It also made me think about and be thankful for the material things that God has allowed us to have, such as a house and reliable transportation. It also made me thankful again for my father-in-law being a good handyman. I was also thankful that APSCO had a refrigerator technician available to make a house call on a Saturday night. Look for things to be thankful for, even when things seem to be going wrong.

Being Thankful #1

This week of Thanksgiving really is one of my favorite weeks of the year. One reason is that so much of our family comes into town for this holiday. Not only do we spend time ‘lingering’ on Turkey Day, that ‘together’ time extends for the rest of the weekend. We don’t do a whole lot, but just being able to sit around together is such a nice change of pace for those few days. I want to take time to be thankful for my family. God has blessed me with not just an incredible wife and 2 great kids, but a loving extended family that I married into who treat me as if I was part of their family all along. No matter what might be going wrong in my life, I want to thank God for blessing me with family!