Simple Joys and thankfulness

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thess 5:18

This is easy when things are going well, and we do try to find something to be thankful for even if we have health issues or other troubles, however life is good andit is a joy to be very grateful and  thankful every day.  I woke this morning listing in my mind the many things we have to be thankful for, and continued to think along those lines during the day.

We are always thankful to wake to the new day. I am grateful for our warm bed and refreshing sleep  and that we can please ourselves what time we get up now that we are retired.

I am thankful for my Bible and ability to read it, and also the freedom.  I think of Linda from our Church who has gone to Taiwan as a missionary, and also the other locals who have gone overseas as missionaries that we have been praying for at our bible study.  Our leader is just back from a short mission trip to Indonesia and we were very interested in recollections of her time there, in such a different culture, and the many blessings and her awareness of Him looking after them.

As I tidied up I appreciated my health to be able to do all my own housework, and having a home, however modest, to live our life in.

It was another glorious day, and soon our Tilda (dog) was waiting for us to take our coffee out the front and sit together and contemplate the day.

Getting on with the day after a smoothie for breakfast and a lovely warm shower, then a walk in the sunshine along to the church hall to join the ladies meeting there, with a cheery hello to neighbours along the way.

Chat and laughter with sisters in the Lord there. It was devotions and fellowship today as our secretary broke her ankle this week, just a simple slip in her back garden, and of course, the President didn't bother her hubby for the books etc.

We are thankful that Heather is getting the best of care in hospital, free under our system, and has a devoted hubby and family,  and we pray for her smooth recovery.

Then Barry and I went for our weekly shop, thankful that everything we need is available to us, and we don't have to worry about being able to pay for it.

It was good to meet people we know around the shops, one of the joys of living in a country town. I had a chat with Laura who is just handing out the leaflets for a ladies convention coming up (just one day) and learnt our minister has made our church's Christian School bus available to take us there.

Now we have worked together on the program for the concerts at the homes this month, and it has all come together, first one tomorrow, and will finish the day with a fresh salad and pleasing ourselves whether we watch a little TV or read.

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Acts 17:28

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With love and blessings,

Jan