How often when your world is falling down around you or even when everything is going well do we take the time to stop and think about what you have to be thankful for? Beginning the 1st of November I started posting what I had to be thankful for that day on my Facebook page. Of course it was November and many others were doing the same with Thanksgiving in mind, and most of those ended their postings at the end of the month. But I was compelled to continue. And now 91 days later, I continue to post what I have to be thankful for each day. And the plan is to continue through at least this year. I don't claim to be a writer at all, in fact most of the time I feel like I'm just rambling and when you get to the end of what I've written you will be wondering "what the heck did she mean by all that" but I hope to try and make some sense. I tried this idea of blogging once before and then life got so busy that I didn't get back to it. But now I'm feeling compelled to do this again.
During the beginning of my posting thankfulness for the day I lost a friend to a tragic accident. She was one of those rare souls who could always find something to laugh about no matter how bad things seemed. I want to be one of those people. Yes I cried and my heart was broken. I had spent a week praying and crying out to God to fix her. Her boys needed her, her family needed her and she was much to young to die. And yet the day after Thanksgiving the injuries to her brain were to much and she left us. I know that some people will say "if God is so good then why didn't He heal her" but I believe He has. She's whole again. She's laughing still and I am going to choose to be like her and be thankful for the time I had with her. To be thankful for the laughs we shared. And to be thankful that I was blessed to be able to call her my friend.
I always strive to teach my daughter that even when it seems we have nothing we are still richly blessed and there is always someone who is struggling worse then we are. I want to be one of those people who always finds the good. I know that my God is good always. Even when I don't understand and all seems dark, God is good.
One of my favorite verses is.....
Philippians 4:6 Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
So I hope you will come along with me in search of what is good, what we have to be thankful for and focusing on what God is doing and not what we think He should have done.
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