Week's end with thanks

• Exploring our new neighborhood. Ithought that moving away from our faux-farm and into the city would mean a shortage of trees and nature walks. But then … hooray! A wooded park with old swings and winding paths overlooking the river, just a few blocks away. Grateful. 
• Exploring our yard. Berry bushes! We found four blueberries and two raspberries. Looking forward to a little summer harvest.
• Unpacking, unpacking, unpacking. Grateful for able arms and sturdy backs.
• Family members and friends full of grace.
• SO many people chipping in to help in so many ways. Painting, painting, painting. Watching kids, moving furniture, loading, unloading, cleaning (CLEANING!!), praying, picking up pizzas, paying for pizzas (!), installing shower rods, delivering dinner to the door, bags of groceries, I can’t even list all the ways we were helped. Overwhelmed with gratefulness.
• Dinners delivered. Oh! What a gift.
• Hosting RENEW at our new house the day after moving. So fun! Full of warmth and laughter. Grateful for those people.
• Struggling through the funk of another transition, feeling so tired. Grateful that His mercies are new every morning. A mulligan, over and over!
• Celebrating the sweet things God has done and is doing here, in this little place we join together. More than 120,000 visits last year from people in 102 different countries! Thank you, Jesus! And thank you for sharing God’s love and truth and inviting others into this little place we learn and grow together.
• (Cold) runs with Danielle.
• Joanna’s gift of a new chandelier! It’s so pretty!
• Debra’s gift of lightbulbs for it!
• Spray paint. Wow, what it can do!
• Every day, a little better.
• Re-learning how to choose joy and give thanks.
• Feeling so lost and overwhelmed, so often, and grateful He just carries us. When we’re feeling so weak, He carries us.
• Trusting that He is in all our future days, however unknown they are to us.
• My kids. Oh those kids are a joy to me every day.
• My new writing spot–a comfy chaise with a cozy quilt in the corner of Jeff’s little office. I love it.
• Popcorn. With lots of butter. And salt.
• Vegetable soup!
• Cultured Caveman rainbow fries.
• Sarah.
• The Re-Build It Center
• Ella-Rose with purple hair who brightened our day.
• That I haven’t screamed or yelled at anyone even though I felt so tired and out of sorts from moving! SO grateful for God’s grace in that!
• That so many of you are giving and receiving Plenty and Let In Light! Thank you for your enthusiasm and encouragement!
• Sleep. Always so grateful for that.
• That He never changes. In all our ups and downs–He never changes.

{A blessed weekend to you. Thank you so much, with all my heart, for reading.}