thanksgiving blessing and my friends

Thanksgiving is here, so our minds have turned
To what time has taught us, to what we've learned:
We often focus all our thought
On shiny things we've shopped and bought.
We take our pleasure in material things,
Forgetting the pleasure that friendship brings.
If a lot of our stuff just vanished today,
We'd see the foundation of each happy day
Is special relationships, constant and true,
And that's when our thoughts go directly to you.
We wish you a Thanksgiving you'll never forget,
Full of love and joy—your best one yet!
By Joanna Fuchs

Friends are the blessings of life. I look back at the many friends I have had thru my life. Thru the good times and difficult times have formed me. You have taught me important lessons. Happy thanksgiving

thanksgiving blessing and my friends

Thanksgiving is here, so our minds have turned
To what time has taught us, to what we've learned:
We often focus all our thought
On shiny things we've shopped and bought.
We take our pleasure in material things,
Forgetting the pleasure that friendship brings.
If a lot of our stuff just vanished today,
We'd see the foundation of each happy day
Is special relationships, constant and true,
And that's when our thoughts go directly to you.
We wish you a Thanksgiving you'll never forget,
Full of love and joy—your best one yet!
By Joanna Fuchs

Friends are the blessings of life. I look back at the many friends I have had thru my life. Thru the good times and difficult times have formed me. You have taught me important lessons. Happy thanksgiving

Thanksgiving blessings

Count Your Blessings

When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Refrain:
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God hath done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.

The Story Behind Count Your Blessings

Johnson Oatman, Jr. grew up in New Jersey in the middle of the 19th Century singing hymns with his father. His life is a testimony to the legacy left by a loving Father who sings praise to God with his children! Johnson grew up to become a bi-vocational Methodist minister and he wrote over 5,000 hymns, including Count Your Blessings in 1897. Count Your Blessings is considered his finest hymn and for over one century it has been one of our most loved hymns. It’s a song of thankfulness to God that is sung by English speaking people around the world on Thanksgiving Day and all year long.

One writer said about Count Your Blessings, “It is like a beam of sunlight that has brightened up the dark places of the earth.” Early on it was especially popular in Great Britain, where it was said, “The men sing it, the boys whistle it, and the women rock their babies to sleep on this hymn.” During the revival in Wales it was one of the hymns sung at every service.

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Lets make it a year long habit to count our blessing every day. Thank God for what who is and how it changed our life. I would guess right now, the song is going thru your head.

Lessons learned at the beach

This is my favorite time of the year.  I have always loved fall.  The colors of trees changing.  Crops in the fields are being harvested.   The smell in the air is so fresh.  We love going for rides in the evening, just to see the harvest of God's creation.

I love being able to sit on my deck and do my studying and writing.  Right now, I have my favortie cup of tea. I am listening to my favorite music on my phone.  Reminding me of how much God has done for me.  Hearing in the distance of people working in their yards. A breeze blowing just enough, I had to run in and get a sweater.

As then, I think of what a big wonderful friend I have,  Jesus Christ.  He is my healer, provider.  This summer, He has shown me in so many ways, how he cares for me. I was walking the beach, while visiting friends and family.  A mighty big wave grabbed my cane, I kept trying to reach it when the wave would bring it back in.  I would almost have it and a wave would grabbed it over and over.  Finally, God spoke to my heart in a very real way,  " Don't ya get it Paula? You don't need that."  I stopped short, looked up and said" Your right Lord, I don't need it."  since that day I walk without a cane up and down hills and never fall.

In this lesson, God showed me some real truths. In 1995, God came down and healed me in a very real way. I hardly used that cane expect if I walked without John. I didn't think anything about it.  It had been a part of my life.  Never needing the cane or scooter unless, it was long distance and very hot.   God had healed me in so many other ways, I just did what I always did.

I truly believe my heavenly father was telling me" You been taking baby steps.  Now let me  do what I want to do"  by grabbing the cane, I had to depend on God and the healing he had given me so very long ago.  I had to finish walking that beach, climb up the slippery sandy dunes.

I heard not too long ago this: " People want to let the Lord be the driver, but they want to hold on to the steering wheel."

Well I have let go of the steering wheel and I am still standing, walking and carrying something at the same time.

After the Lord showed me that lesson on the beach.  After I agreed I didn't need that old cane, It stood straight up and danced along the waves, like it was laughing at me.  My mother in law and I stood there and just hysterically laughed, holding our sides and the sight of that cane.

God is so good.