It’s Day 30 of the Giving Thanks Challenge hosted by Leah at South Breeze Farm.

I am thankful that, after 30 days, I haven’t run out of things to be thankful for. 😀

Here are a few more:

Being able to be a homemaker since my children came along

Running water, indoor plumbing, hot water heaters (I’ve visited places with none of those luxuries!)

Games

Art, crafts, hobbies

The ability to walk. I was without it for a few short months, and I think maybe that makes me appreciate it a little more.

Decaf Diet Pepsi and Mugs Root Beer

Pellet ice

…and so much more, in major spiritual blessings and little everyday ones.

Thanks to the Giver of all:

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. James 1:17

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. I Timothy 6:17

I’ll leave my list in my sidebar for a few days; otherwise you can find the other posts in the Giving Thanks Challenge here.

Thank you, Leah, for encouraging us to name something we are thankful for every day this month. It has been a good exercise.

It’s Day 29 of the Giving Thanks Challenge hosted by Leah at South Breeze Farm.

I am thankful for medicine, doctors, nurses, hospitals, dentists, and the level of health care we have in this country. I’ve been blessed with wonderful doctors and nurses along the way. I have friends and loved ones who would have died without medical help. The health care system is flawed in many ways, there are ethical issues that new medical technology raises, there are cures that are worse than the illness, there are questionable treatments that call for discernment, but still, all told, I’d hate to go back to the days of leeches and a lack of knowledge of basic health practices that we take for granted now and higher mortality rates. Ultimately it is God who heals, as one former pastor used to say, with medicine, without medicine, or in spite of medicine, but I think He has gifted and used many in the health industry.

It’s Day 27 of the Giving Thanks Challenge hosted by Leah at South Breeze Farm.

I am thankful for answered prayer — even when answer has been “No.” I am so thankful God hasn’t given me things that I thought at the time I wanted or needed, and that He gives grace when He allows trials.

For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. II Corinthians 12:8-10.

It’s Day 26 of the Giving Thanks Challenge hosted by Leah at South Breeze Farm.

I am thankful for the measure of health I have. Whatever troubles I have had, they could have been much worse, and God has shown His grace, strength, provision, and care in the health trials He has allowed.

It’s Day 24 of the Giving Thanks Challenge hosted by Leah at South Breeze Farm.

I am thankful for that Jeremy arrived safely and our whole family is together again!

Happy Thanksgiving Eve!

It’s Day 22 of the Giving Thanks Challenge hosted by Leah at South Breeze Farm.

I am VERY thankful that my mother-in-law’s hearing aid came in today! It was lost a few weeks ago, and a new one was supposed to be ready last Thursday — but wasn’t. They said if it didn’t come in by Friday it would be after Thanksgiving before they could set up an appointment. It didn’t — but they called today, said it had come in, and asked if we could have her there by 4:30. We could and did! I am so grateful she got it before Thanksgiving — she would get so much more out of the day here with it. Not to mention everyday life!