Every Good and Perfect Gift

Listing gratitude has become something I look forward to about Mondays. I have found it shapes my day more carefully, more clearly. I find my mind is focusing on items to be thankful for instead of complaining about--and this is such a useful discipline!

Coffee with a friend
Discussing challenges and pleasures with raising a family, being married
Breakfast in a cookie, hard boiled eggs, joy in the small things
Down time, shared with those I love
A week filled with anticipation, palm leaves scattered, voices raised, a glad heart.
Music to raise the spirit, convincing the soul
Listening ears, broad shoulders, caring hearts


Joy in the morning, small chatter filled with interesting events and stories for the one who listens
Unexpected snow falling, knowing I am not in control
God's Word, reaching and teaching
Understanding the Lamb of God, the Passover, Easter's impact
Plans and dreams, carefully scripted, hope against hope
Great expectations, the journey to motherhood, God's remarkable design
Opportunities to share from the heart, from the head about what this design has become in a finite body, how well we have been knit together.


Gentle kisses and bristly chin, freshly trimmed moustache
Smiling eyes
Inside jokes shared by two, laughter and love over a lifetime
Finding occupation for time, Zen gardening and grass seeds
Rhubarb budding
Plans shared, hope shared, scripts written for memories to be made
Passages in life, birthdays and graduations  and completions and dreams made into reality.


My week has so many plans within it, plans for family times, for friendship time, for fellowship time and for meditation on why Easter is the crux of the Christian calendar, the Christian life. My heart is filled!

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