It's Friday!! Thank you for joining me once again in being thankful for the blessings in our week. Seeing blessing in each and every day is a learning process. Our natural bent is to look for big, obvious things that grab our emotions and attention but developing a life of gratitude to God goes beyond that and searches for His gifts in the quieter, more mundane days and even in the most difficult of times when it takes intention and purpose. If you are new, welcome to the jouney. If you have been part of FFF through the years, I'm so thankful you've joined in once again.
~ help and connection ~ Sunday I went to church early to put together some Operation Christmas Child boxes and have a small display up for people coming to the church on election day. Our church is a voting location when elections, in this week's case a referendum, are held and voter's have always taken some boxex to fill. One of the church admins volunteered to come and help me and it turned into a wonderful time of sharing and chatting. I've known this lady for years but it's been one of the few times we've really just visited for a length of time where we could get to know each other better. Love when God knits hearts together over a shared purpose.
~ spontaneous lunch out with friends ~ we enjoyed the blessing of friends spontaneouly asking us to meet them for lunch. The conversation was lively and fun and the food delicious. And bonus: there were no dishes to clean.
~ stunning fall weather ~ after the crazy wind on Saturday where gusts peaked at 100 km/hr (60 mph), the rest of the week has been stunning. Warm and sunny, with the leaves turning color we've spent as much time otside as we can!
~ relaxed Sunday afternoon ~ when I was growing up, Sunday's used to truly be a day of rest in every sense of the word. There were no store's open except your little corner grocery store. You went to church, had a nice dinner at home, maybe had friends over for awhile. We've lost a lot of that in our modern culture. Everything is open for business as usual. Sunday's seem to be so rushed. This last Sunday we pushed the pause button on all that and made it a day of intentional rest and it was wonderful. I didn't run around cleaning or grocery shopping. Lunch was an easy crockpot meal with little amount of dishes. We read, watched a show or two, went for a walk. It was wonderful.
~ praying friends ~ I have had a physical annoyance that lately has turned into a concern. I'm so thankful for a group of supportive and praying friends.
What have been your favorite blessings this week?
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