Being Thankful.

I read the post, which I am about to share with you, tonight. I read it as I sat thinking about my little daughter struggling all day with a high fever. High fevers may happen a lot in some of your houses, but in our house, we haven't had this high a fever in well over a year or so. I forget sometimes how quickly things change. How we can go from well to sick in a flash. The car accident 14 months ago taught us that. We were happily driving around getting to know the town we had just moved to 6 days prior, and were struck in the blink of an eye. My daughters daily headaches, and my neck pain are a constant reminder of how things change. YET, when do stop and realize that TODAY is the day to be thankful for every breath we take? For every moment spent with our precious children? Today is the day of our salvation! Not our "spiritual birthday" five years ago......TODAY. Today is the day to be thankful for our children, not tomorrow, when they may be in a better mood, or less needy.....TODAY. This is a reminder I need soooo often. I am realizing more and more the need of thankfulness and gratefulness in the Body of Believers. "Let it start with me Lord. Amen."

Please read this beautiful blog post on the subject. Here is a snippet...

"How to Mend All Your Broken Places.

A silly little turn of my foot in a game of charades gone ridiculously wrong.

And the bones in my ankle disengage, swell my foot like a bluing balloon, and I writhe quiet and smile thinly.

Because really, aren’t I one of those women who comes unglued and broken only a thousand times a day?

The heart of this world’s fractured and we all bear the fault lines.

I ice my throbbing ankle hill with a ziplock bag of melting snow.

Hobble around with the laundry for days.

I’m laying on the couch with my foot propped high over my head, when a friend emails, “Pray for me? I can manage the nausea and exhaustion. It’s the mouth sores that are the hardest.”

She’s the mother of five young children.

“I’m just not sure how I’ll be able to do my job to take care of my babies while on these drugs every day.”

She’s on an aggressive, determined round of three chemo drugs."

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