Friday's Fave Five #883

 Welcome to Friday's Fave Five on this day where we reflect on the great mercy and love of God towards us in sending us His Son, Jesus, to die for us so that we can have eternal life with Him.  My prayer today is that your heart knows this truth.  

I will be joining in later today.  It was a busy week with work and other happenings and in all honesty I totally forgot what day I was on and didn't realize till bedtime that it was Thursday night and I hadn't written my FFF post.   Please go ahead and link you own posts and I will post mine as soon as I can.  

UPDATE:

Thanks for being patient.  I don't know how I forgot what day it actually was.  Too many things on my plate this week, I guess.  But onwards and upwards as they say.  Time to reflect on the goodness of God in my life over the past week.

~ Good Friday ~ as a believer, the great blessing in my life this week in what Jesus did on the cross.  He bore my pain, my sin and shame, He made a way to cross the chasm that exists between a Holy God and creator and His creation that falls into sin(me and you) so that we can be in relationship with our God.  He exchanged our filthy rags for garments clean as snow and gave us His peace in exchange.  Are we perfect? No.  But I now have an eternal hope and home.  And you can too.  The bible says in John 1 verse 12 

 "Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God"

I will forever be grateful and thankful for that!

~ OCC regional team meeting ~ Tuesday night was an online meeting of Connect Volunteers in my region for Operation Christmas Child.  It was great to see faces from all over Alberta and Yukon who head up volunteer areas in OCC.  It was an hour of encouragement, information of upcoming events, and prayer.  It was the first meeting like this that I have attended and I really enjoyed being with others who have been involved in this wonderful ministry.

~ supper out with family ~ we had a spur of the moment dinner out with my sister in law and her hubby last Friday evening.  They wanted us to try a diner they liked to eat at.  The food was good and the company fun. 

~ taste of spring ~  we had a couple of beautiful warmish spring days this week before we were plunged back into cold and snow.  But I'm thankful it wasn't the harsh winter snow but the wet snow that signals the seasons changing so I know spring is on it's way.  Here the snow melted quite quickly, and I'm grateful for the moisture after a really dry winter.  My Japanese fern peonies are starting to poke through the dirt so full on spring weather is only a matter of time.

~ better mobility ~ the ol' knee injury has been healing and this week it has been feeling pretty good.  At least the area where the injury was.  I can pretty much go about as usual without being hyper aware of how I make every movement without feeling ache or pain from the injury.  Now if I could just get rid of the arthritis ache I might just think I'm 20 again.  Maybe.

~ fun projects with the dayhome ~ because it's Easter the kids were really wanting to do quite a bit of arts and crafts which I always really enjoy with them.  Sometimes it's a planned one but most times I just give them items and see what they come up with.   I love the creativity they have.  

I want to wish every a very happy Easter holiday and Resurrection Sunday!  Thank you so much for joining me weekly being grateful for the blessings God brings into our individual lives.

“Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.” –A.W. Tozer