Week's end with thanks

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  • Your blessed comments and encouragement as the Sacred Mundane adventure begins. Thank you!
  • Cord of wood stacked neatly in the carport.
  • Crackling, smell of fire, flames dancing, leaning against the warm iron– I love our wood stove!
  • Car to drive.
  • Beef barley soup.
  • Quesadillas. Eating up all the kids left over.
  • Reheating coffee on the stove.
  • Spice cookies. (Just a few!)
  • Family Community Group.
  • New Community Group.
  • Joy of each group being unique, something of a blessing in itself.
  • Getting to know people.
  • Guys talking.
  • Girls listening. (Too often it’s the other way around)
  • Treasure Hunt picnic! SUCH a blast — parts of our lunch hidden around the property. A day to remember to be sure!
  • Pierre the dog we’re coming to love.
  • Kids smashing ants with cut carrots.
  • Dutch snuggled up resting on the couch. Quiet, then: “I’m starting to like this house.”
  • Cody here to play.
  • Dutch kissing Elle goodbye. Those two, I tell you, in 15 years …
  • Nate’s smile.
  • Soft, glowing lamplight.
  • Kitchen worship.
  • Singing with the kids. Heidi, “Sin is broken, you have saved me!”
  • Heidi’s confession: “I not a Ch’istian yet.”
  • Praying for her day of redemption.
  • Trusting Christ.
  • Snuggling longer than normal.
  • Tired eyes. Napping with Heidi. Because I can.
  • Inhaling her apple breath as she sleeps.
  • Kissing her cheeks, round and soft like peaches.
  • Snuggling up with Dutch.
  • Little boy smells.
  • Puppy breath — I’ll never quiet thanking God for it.
  • Flossing tiny teeth.
  • Falling in love with my man.
  • Waking to hot coffee.
  • Slipping under icy cold sheets at night, waiting waiting waiting for them to warm. Finally warm, pull feet up close, drift to sleep.
  • Ann Byle, editor extraordinaire, gift from God. 
  • The team.
  • Trusting with.
  • Long talks with my man about the kingdom of God.
  • Wanting it to count.
  • God being so so so so so faithful as we study His word in Galatians.
  • Teaching. How on earth am I so blessed that I get to do this?!!  Amazing grace.
  • More opportunities to trust.
  • Bowing low.
  • Standing tall.
  • Learning to lose.
  • Seeing my precious High School friends at Megan’s engagement party. So thankful for 20+ years of friendship! Amazing.
  • My husband who makes me so proud.
  • Date night.
  • My dad who is my hero, taking care of Oma and both our kids.
  • Letting Him worry about our future.
  • Knowing He already knows it.
  • Mrs. Meyer’s basil scented dish soap. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — products like that make domesticity bliss!
  • Trader Joe’s.
  • Really, really tired, but happy and seeing God’s faithful hand through a busy season.
  • Legos strewn.
  • Paint smeared.
  • Windows smudged.
  • Crumbs dropped.
  • Books scattered.
  • Dishes stacked.
  • To-do lists abandoned.
  • All day on the couch reading Treasure Island.
  • Doing it again the next day.
  • The breath and life, the gift of each day.
  • Knowing I’ll do it again. Because I can and this is grace.
{I LOVED reading your lists last week. Would you consider sharing a few of yours with me again this week? It’d be so fun to read a few of yours … thanks for sharing, and reading.}

2 thoughts on “Week's end with thanks”

  1. *Therapists and teachers who deeply care about Nate’s success
    *Making up and feeling closer
    *Watching my friend flourish in the gifts of teaching and writing
    *Feeling God stirring
    *Cody’s daily proclamation as he rubs my belly, “I just love our new baby so much”
    *Community group that has become family
    *Giving meals to a friend in transition – watching as a whole Tuesday morning group joyfully joins in to help
    *Seeing boys being boys – throwing leaves, jumping, tackling each other and loving every second
    *Our dishwasher
    *My loving husband who stays up late to clean the kitchen just because he knows it will make my day easier
    *Having a blog where I can safely vent
    *Playing Go Fish in front of the fire
    *Hearing the sweet belly laughs as I tickle Nate – he just keeps coming back for more
    *Steadier steps each day from our almost 3 year old boy
    *Friends who stay close even though we are so far away
    *A deep, safe discussion with the women of our Tuesday morning group
    *Almost 6 months pregnant and still able to keep up with my Boot Campers – love those women
    *Freshly vacuumed rug
    *Finding much needed item for Nate on Craigslist
    *Christian music to inspire
    *Pumpkin bagels with pumpkin cream cheese
    *Those who serve our country in military service
    *Naptime
    *His unending love

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