Friday's Fave Five #783

Welcome to Friday's Fave Five.   Please join us as we take a moment and pause our busyness to reflect on the blessings in our lives over the past week.  Our goal is to intentionally take note of all the good things God blesses us with in our ordinary days so that it becomes more of our nature to see the blessings than to dwell on the not so good.  Developing a heart of gratitude takes noticing things to be grateful for and that takes intention.  Please join us as we meet each Friday to share 5 of our favorite blessings from the week.  

~ beautiful calm, warm days ~  This week has seen some absolutely lovely warm and calm days, especially noticed after a brutally windy Sunday.   It was the kind of wind where we literally had to make sure things were weighed down outside and parking under trees was taking a risk.  I opened the bathroom window for a couple of minutes to let the steam from a shower dissipate and it sounded like there was a helicopter landing in the bathroom.  So it was a great blessing to have days of absolute calm and warmth.  

~ April Pink Moon ~ Wednesday night was an "April full pink moon".  About 10 o'clock I let the dog out and saw it's brightness shining through the neighbor's pines.  Now if you look it up it is supposedly named a pink moon because it's named after spring wildflowers.  But as this moon was rising it was literally pink this year.  It was amazing against the dark blue night sky.  It was really a stunner.  Had I have know it was going to be this great this year, I would have been tempted to drive out of town away from the city lights and obstructions to get a picture.  As it was an hour later it was covered by a thin layer of clouds and no longer looked pink so I'm glad I got this shot anyway.  

~ painless days ~ my left knee has been giving me grief for almost a month.  It's made work hard, walking the dog impossible and sleeping not so great.  But this Tuesday I woke up and it literally felt great.  No real pain, just a bit achy when it's tired. I've been able to walk the dog a few times this week.  Praise God.  I should probably still get it checked as it's not totally back to normal yet but I'm so thankful that the major pain and limited mobility was absent these last 4 days.  

~ great memories ~ all this month FB has been shooting memories from my Operation Christmas Child missions trip to Costa Rica into my feed.  I've been looking forward to each day to see which memory it brings up.  It was a high light in my life and I vividly remember it.  It would be fun to see how all the kids have grown from when we were there.  Has it really been 5 years?!!

~ a good hearty laugh ~ I really do love a good laugh and love when I come across something so relatable it makes me laugh out loud.  I came across this somewhere and thought it was too funny not to share.

What have been your favorite blessings this past week?