Saturday, December 1, 2007

Gratitude Journal December 1, 2007

1. I'm grateful to be made aware of some needs of other members of my church. Helping to meet them makes it feel like Christmas. I'd still like to find some sort of community service we could do as a family Christmas Day.

2. I enjoyed meeting two new families in my church this evening at our Mom's group Christmas party.

3. I'm grateful for muscle relaxers. As much as I hate taking medication, I was more than willing to take half a muscle relaxer to be able to go to the Christmas party this evening. It was just enough to ease the pain enough to allow me to go. Also, my electric massager is a God-send.

4. I'm enjoying doing cryptoquips with my kids this evening. I love having fun with them.

5. As I'm spending more time focused on the Lord and reading my Bible and Christian self-help books, it seems that I'm thinking and saying appropriate things more often rather than ignoring situations I don't know how to handle. I'm extremely grateful every time I do or say something and know that it's God doing it through me. I've talked with two people who have had someone close to them commit suicide this week. The right words just flowed from my mouth. Also with parenting situations, I'm responding to sibling conflict situations that I previously ignored not knowing what to do or say. God is good.

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