Being Thankful - Day One

My my.  July was it?  I knew it had been awhile, but I didn't realize I'd been gone quite that long.

I've seen many bloggers do this in recent years, and it's such a good idea.  Spending the time between November 1 and Thanksgiving Day spelling out each day something for which they are truly grateful.  Yesterday, Toot asked me what my favorite holiday was.  I told him Thanksgiving, although I'm sure he wouldn't understand why.  (He didn't ask.  He just said, "oh!  Okay, well mine....")  But, for me, while Christmas is such fun, Easter is precious for what it represents, Independence Day urges me to remember the courage and fortitude from which we came, Thanksgiving Day gets in my heart.  It's about family.  And love.  And, being human, there's abundant food involved.  But we are asked to remember our blessings and express gratitude for those things with which we are blessed, in spite of what we deserve.  That's all this day is about.

And that is precious, important, fun, wonderful and absolutely coram Deo.  Coram Deo - something Jmk and I hope to live out more consistently as the days and years go by.

So, with that in mind, today's entry as well as Thanksgiving Day's entry will be the same.  I am so grateful for the promise of life, given to the children of the Lord, even though we don't deserve it.  I'm so grateful to have been raised in a church that gives all the glory to God for that salvation.  I'm so grateful to know that my hope of salvation is not real because I believe on Jesus Christ.  Rather, my belief is simply evidence that my salvation was already purchased.  Praise GOD, I can't even take credit for my belief.  But what I do with what is in my heart IS up to me.  I can't ignore it; I can't say it doesn't exist because it's not convenient for me.  And, as I attempt to teach my children about this world that was created by God, I am being blessed with more understanding - a tiny bit more each day, even.  What a precious, valuable thing that is.  To be loved by the Creator of the Universe and to be allowed to learn a bit more about Him every day is something for which I am so very thankful.