Thankful Thursday

I'm joining Sonya at Truth 4 The Journey for "Thankful Thursday". Be sure and visit her and all the participants--maybe you'd like to join us!! I'm sure we can all think of 5 things that we are thankful for!!

And here are my five thankfuls for this week:

• I am thankful for my present from my son--4 new tires and inspection for my car for another year!! I am so thankful to him for this. I've been needing tires--he knows this. He didn't wait for me to say anything to him about this--he saw the need and acted upon it!! He went to pick my car up after the repairs had been done from the accident it was involved in. He was taking so long to come home, and the roads were bad again!! I called him to make sure that everything was alright. He said, "I'll be home soon--I'm fine." And he came home with 4 new tires and the inspection done for the year.
  

• I am thankful that my youngest daughter, Lindsay, will be coming home from Texas on Tuesday and able to spend CHRISTmas with us. This would not be possible financial wise except for the goodness of another who is paying her airfare.
  

• I am thankful that this same daughter, who had a health scare and finally talked to me about it after spending three weeks worrying over this, has gone to the doctor and is being treated with good results. All of her worrying over the dreaded diseases that she was looking up on the Internet, and this has been diagnosed as a rather simple thing that can be treated with antibiotics.

• I am thankful that God has surrounded me with friends--my spiritual family--to encourage me and uplift me during what has been a difficult time for me.

• I am thankful that God has purpose in my life. He has plans for me, is making them known to me, and I will willingly follow through with what He has directed me to do.

• And last (I know this is more than 5, but I have a lot to be thankful for this week!) but certainly not least, I am thankful that God sent Jesus to earth so that we could see and have an example of how we are to live and conduct our own lives. When I think of this, God sending Jesus to us--knowing how He would be tortured and sacrificed for us--God's love for us seems overwhelming to me, and it is!!

I am very thankful this week, and despite all the commercialism of Christmas, I'm keeping my focus on Jesus--the love HE wants us to show and share with others. As I'm growing deeper and deeper in love with HIM, I'm realizing all that HE has done for me--even when I was far from HIM. I want to share this love with others, not only for this special season, but always.



Beth