Welcome to Friday's Fave Five. Are you ready to pause and look for the blessings God has graciously sent your way over the past week? If you are, you have stopped in the right place. We pause our busy, ordinary days each Friday to intentionally do just that, take note of our blessings. Whether small or large, obvious or not so much, we want to develop a heart and an eye that realizes how much we have to be thankful for.
~ warm home ~ I am very thankful for the blessing of a warm home. After bragging how lovely our weather was last week, nature decided to plunge us into the freezer for a bit. This morning we woke up -24*C (-11.2*F) feels like -37*C (-35*F). Yes, it's been a tad bit frosty all week. Snow has fallen and it's nasty cold even for this Canadian. Needless to say, no river bottom walks this week. But what a blessing to have a warm home when the weather gets like this.
~ comfy pajamas ~ my youngest blessed me with a cozy and soft pair of pajamas for my birthday in December and I've been making good use of them. The are so comfortable and perfect for these chilly nights.
~ banking business completed ~ my sister and I were able to get more items ticked off on the check list one has after a death of a parent. Such a relief to get this off our plates for now. All this stuff that one dreads doing but needs to be done can quickly get overwhelming. So thankful we had wonderful people that walked us through everything that needed to be done banking wise.
~ ibuprofen ~ this week I was grateful for this pain med as sciatica reared up and caused a lot of discomfort and pain. I don't like to take a lot of pain meds but when I really need it I'm thankful it is available. Funny enough as I was looking back on some posts from 2 years ago I saw that the last time sciatica got to me was also the first week of February. That's probably telling me I don't get enough movement into my days when really cold weather hits and I need to do something about that to avoid this.
~ heating pad ~ and continuing on with pain relief, it was a blessing to have a far infrared heating pad handy for my back and hip during this time. Hubby gifted me with this a few years ago and everytime I've used it I'm very thankful for it.
Those are just a few of the blessings that came my way this week. It was a very low key, and what some would say, very boring kind of week. But there is still blessing to be found in the ordinary days. It doesn't all have to be big and come with a fanfare. In fact, it usually doesn't. But it's there to be noticed and be grateful for. What were you thankful for this week?
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