In the midst of a busy week and too many stories of brokenness and pain and loss, I still found many many gifts to count today. 204. Reconnecting with old friends 205. The unexpected encouragement heard at the memorial service 206. Examples of clinging to God’s faithfulness in the face of the ugliness of sin…

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I joined Ann Voskamp’s Gratitude Community at the beginning of 2011. On Mondays, we share what we’ve discovered as we’ve counted blessings throughout the week. Not only have I discovered more of life in each moment, I’ve found myself slowing down to soak up the beauty around me, things I have been running too fast…

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Continuing my Monday practice of counting gifts, a few blessings from the past week. My thanks are mingled with tears… we received news that the dearly-loved husband and father of some of our friends passed away, and the very-young daughter and grand-daughter of another friend has begun her battle with a rare form of cancer.…

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“All fear is but the notion that God’s love ends. Fear thinks God is finite and fear believes that there is not going to be enough and hasn’t counting one thousand gifts, endlessly counting gifts, exposed the lie at the heart of all fear? In God, blessings never end because God’s love for you never…

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We’re preparing for one of those weeks you hope comes around once every 6 months or less. We have a series of fun events all scheduled within the same 7 day period. And setting up this exceptionally busy week? Daylight Savings Time, or as I like to refer to it, messing around with people’s sleep…

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As I wrote last week, God has been showing me that everything, even the suffering, is redeemable and to be grateful for. I have always fought against being thankful for the challenges my children have faced, but I’ve purposed to be thankful today. This week I continue to find things in our daughter’s situation for…

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