So Thankful!

Finally, a Thanksgiving post!Life is keeping me hopping!! Phil.4:4-7Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Psalm 107:15,21,31Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing loveand his wonderful deeds for mankind. A Few Thankfulness collages Family Food Flowers Fall... We thank You God, for Your love story nothing can eraseYour un-surpassing goodness, glory, faithfulness and graceWe thank you for the masterpieces of sky, sea and sodWhere wonder never ceases as You keep us humbly awed We thank you for the beauty of the earth, the broken too(For, oft it is the brokenness that births true want of you)We thank you for your healing through the faith that makes us wholeWhere hope is not a feeling but the anchor of the soul We thank you for your promises nothing can nullifyOh, what a friend we have in Jesus; you hear our heart’s cryYou know our secret struggles of temptation and dismayIn triumph and in troubles You are our Strength and Stay We thank you for loved ones so dear, some near, some far awayFor eyes to see and ears to hear what earth and heavens sayFor teachers/preachers to advise, reprove, encourage, edifyLest, wise in our own eyes we turn Your truth into a lie We thank you for the lure of back roads off the beaten pathWhere pure joy feasts on beauty goading praise where woodlands laughFor friendly little faces, baby-precious, childhood sweetFor the echo that traces places swept with summer’s feet We thank you for the way that daybreak’s debut steals the showSo thankful that come-what-so-may, You will not let us goSo thankful that your handiwork unfolds for all to seeBoth rich and poor and young and old behold Your majesty So thankful that each day is new, no two ever the sameSo thankful for our work to do, lest sloth puts us to shameSo thankful for the ups and downs to make us more awareOf gladness in the joy that crowns the sadness-es we bear So thankful that in Heaven there will be no grief or painThat when we are forgiven, we suffer nothing in vainSo thankful for a table that groans with Divine DelightFor Self, inept, unable to appease want’s appetite So thankful for the cornucopia of harvest hymnsFor all we learn through letting go that holding always bringsFor holes we fill with happiness too delicate to clenchFor nature’s seasoned friendliness no season can quite quench So thankful for the simple things we dare not overlookSmall hands that make us feel as rich as kings, for a good bookFor cups of milk or tea, for hugs so warm and wee, oh myTo melt our hearts and make life sweet as honeysuckle sigh For supper-soup, and twilight strolls; for season tides we braveWhere goldenrod and aster tolls in countdowns to fall’s graveWhere roguish winds romance and winnow more than leaf from treeWhere we, not mere creatures of chance cradle eternity Where, by the grace of God we need not grieve death’s grievous pallIf we receive (if we believe) what Christ achieved for allThe pardon for our sins; a gift so that no one can boastThe victory repentance wins through Mercy’s uttermost We thank you for your Word, undeterred from age unto ageFor how spirits are stirred as You speak from its ancient pageYour Word is our defense in a world rife with ruthless changeWe thank-you for Your Presence that no power can estrange We thank You that it is enough, Your love forevermoreThat no amount of stuff can grant what we are searching forWhere each new day is like a love letter, fresh from Your handWhere nothing could be better than whatever you command With renewed gratitude we count our blessings, humbly awedDumbfoundedly confessing ‘there is no one like You, God’Ah, You are so much more than pen can pour to poetryWith reverence we touch the hemline of Your Majesty © Janet Martin