Plenty of Picnics: Gratitude

Nov 17, 2010

I'm Grateful for my Car

After pulling into the Kindergarten pick-up circle I realized I was a few minutes early and killed the engine to save some gas as I read and waited. Only when the children started streaming out of the building did I go to start the car - only it wouldn't. Nothing. No sound. Oh no, not here, I said a silent prayer and kept trying - luckily it caught and I breathed. I picked up my little sweety and we headed straight home.

Today my husband "worked from home" inbetween fixing my van.

Tonight as I drove to a Cub Scout Pack Meeting I was so glad that I could simply start my car!

THANK GOODNESS FOR CARS!!!

Nov 14, 2010

I am Thankful for my Savior

Because if we follow in his footsteps,

we can find true joy, lasting peace and eternal hapiness!

Because no one is untouchable to Him.

He loves us all, and will heal us if we choose to be.

Because he can calm our worst storms

and give us peace in the midst of them.

Nov 12, 2010

I am Grateful for a Wise and Loving God

"In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" Genesis 1:1

"God created man in his own image"

Genesis 1:27

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son" John 3:16

"Let us love one another:for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God." 1 John 4:7

Nov 9, 2010

I am Grateful for GRASS and the color "Grass Green"

I am reading a book called "HABIBI". Liyana, a 14 year old girl, has moved with her family to Jerusalem from St. Louis. Listen to this paragraph, "Liyana's eyes fell upon a small, shapely green lamp, exactly the color of the green grass she missed back home in the United States -who ever thought about grass when you had it? Who ever thought about missing a color?"

Thus today I've been thinking of the color green - and green grass.

The color of green grass takes me back to 1981. I was in Kanazawa Japan riding my bike as a missionary. We would pass field after field of Rice. I thought there was nothing more beautiful than those green green Japanese rice fields.

I loved looking at them.

Maybe that is why Grass Green is one of my Favorite Colors!!:)