I’m enjoying looking back in my gratitude journal to see the ways God blessed me through the year.
47. Phone calls with my parents
48. Cooking with Andrew
49. Bedtime quiet
50. Joy’s kittens!
51. Taming Joy’s kittens
52. Being tired at bedtime
53. Seeing order in the chaos
54. Childhood books randomly popping up
55. No Facebook – electronic peace
56. Breaking old habits
57. Creating new habits
58. Family meetings
59. When God’s word seems written just for me
60. Making the devil mad
61. Getting confirmation that my prayers are being answered
62. Holding composure during a confrontation
63. Having courage to speak the truth
64. Remembering to pray for guidance before an unnerving conversation
65. Forgiveness
66. The reminder to stay humble in spirit
67. Progress of asking questions
68. Remembering to keep my joy in the midst of chaos and accusations
69. The privilege of praying for my family
70. Encouragement for something personal
71. Hearing Joyful practice the piano
72. A renewal
73. Answered prayers!!
74. Finding a community of believers who share similar passions as our family
75. Watching my children blossom
76. Vacation Bible School
77. Encouragement that I’ve been on target with aspects of our parenting
78. Reminders that it is only through Christ that I can come close to getting it right
79. Knowing that my children are making connections with what they are being taught
80. The right encouragement with frustration hits
81. Heart of Wisdom teaching approach!
82. Feeling like all the research, praying, reading, praying, experimenting is finally paying off
83. finding a way to fit all the pieces together to make our homeschool effective, efficient and fun
84. Felling the presence of God through my days
85. Conversations with my children
86. Children stopping their play to help me fold the laundry simply because they saw me doing it
87. Tie dying shirts with kids
88. Watching their excitement and impatience as they dried
89. Brothers and sisters playing together
90. Brothers and sisters working together
91. Watching my children read
92. Watching Peanut get something right- joy radiates out of this child
93. Watching the kids ride bikes
94. A schedule that actually works – keeps me on track, but is flexible – who knew?!
95. Having my work finished and time for my hobbies and projects
96. Finally condensing my beads down
97. Renewed vision for my creative self
98. God-given passion
And that brings us current, the next batch of blessings will be my most recent writings. After reading through that, I have some similar entries on my list, but I just take that as par for the course. Sometimes God needs to point things out to me more than once before I get it.
Ann at The Holy Experience inspired this counting of my blessings and purposing to see the good in life. You can learn more at her blog:
Blessings to you, Vicki
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