Over at A Place Called Simplicity, Linny has done a post on
a season of rest and reflections (Selah With Us This Christmas) of the awesome things God has done for us all over
the past year in 2013.
This time of year is a very special time of year. When growing up my family had many traditions
that we did from Thanksgiving all the way thru the New Year. It was a time of feasting, seeing relatives
we only saw a few times a year, twinkling lights, receiving cards thru the mail
from all over the country and exchanging of gifts.
Even though I have grown up and Tim and I have our own
convictions and traditions we do, this time of year still brings back all
those happy feelings and very special memories.
But most of all a feeling of great, overwhelmingly, deeply felt,
emotions of thankfulness. Starting at
Thanksgiving time, I spend a great deal of time thinking about all that the
Lord has done for us the past year. All
the times He provided and helped us. All
the harder things we went thru but He faithfully carried us thru and we made it
around again to this time of year.
A season of thankfulness to Him. Thankful for all of our health this past year
and for my dad and his continued good health.
Thankful for friends and family. Thankful
that Elizabeth went another year without needing open heart surgery and that none of the children had any hospital
stays this past year. No one needed
stitches or had a broken bone. That we
had the finances to fix vans when they broke down. That when lightning struck the house, no one
was hurt, our home was ok and the insurance replaced all the electronics and wiring that needed replaced. Elizabeth was hooked up to her pulse oxygen
machine that night and everything electronic in that room got fried but not her
pulse Ox machine and she was ok! Glory
to God! We are so grateful that Tim has
a good job. That every time we thought
we could not meet our monthly expenses God provided in a huge way for us and we
were able to meet them all.
There is just so much to be thankful for. God is truly so very good to us all.
We always have had food on the table and a roof over our
heads. Vehicles to drive and even though
we have to be careful how much we go out, we have been able to afford the gas to
put in them.
Thanksgiving time starts these thoughts and ponderings. While we prepare our huge feast I am always
so grateful that we are privileged to have the finances to buy the provisions
to have the beautiful and delicious meal we put together. Every year the economy gets worse and worse
and I wonder if one year we might not be able to celebrate in such a way and am
grateful for this year that we can.
As we fellowship and eat our way through Thanksgiving day and
head toward Christmas we are busy with addressing envelopes and writing our
yearly holiday letter, that we mail out.
There are gifts to buy for those that celebrate this time of year, celebrations
to attend and concerts to go and see. There is a lot of baking to do as we give
baked goods out to many people we know.
But throughout this season we are just so grateful. As we see nativities around, our minds are
drawn to the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. How he left perfect heaven and came to earth
to live, suffer and die for us. There is
nothing in this world to compare with this gift. Thank you God.
As we then move on toward the New Year we are full of
anticipation and excitement for the approaching new year. A year that we don’t know what it holds. A year we ask for Gods grace upon. Another year we are so very grateful
for. Thank you God you are so worthy to be Praised!
Praise God yay he is awesome. Merry Christmas
ReplyDeleteerika
Amen! And Merry Christmas to you as well Erika!
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