Thankful THursday (1000Gifts, Eucharisteo)

This week I am joining Rebecca Jo here to  share  my many thanks for  God's gifts..  Over  several months  I have also been  inspired by  Ann Voskamp  who wrote the book 1000 Gifts to record  our many  heaven sent blessings  which were also called Eucharisteo!! I will also add that  my word for 2019 is Gratitude so this year I am combining these  themes  to share  together  on Knit in God's Hands  with Rebecca Jo!

SO far I have  written up through 853  items of thankfulness  so  today I continue...

854.  I am so thankful to  be  alive to see 2019... at age 68  I can't believe  that as I was born in 1950 I used to think, "Wow, in 2000 I will be 50"  ..  and these 19 years have flown by...I  had that  original thought so many times in those first 50 years...  I've hardly had a second  of thinking  about the ensuing ones, until  just this week,,  19 years is nearly a generation...  and it  was  like  a  drop in the bucket!

855.  I am  exceptionally  thankful for my dear  children and grands.. well,  our one daughter and her husband,  along with their two daughters... 

Here they were last spring  following the oldest's ballet recital...  they live about 7 states away and I miss them dearly,     but  it is all  good....  

856.  So I am  very thankful for Face Time !!!

857.  I am thankful for the wonderful   events we shared with family and friends over the holidays...  the older  we get the more our friends have come to mean to us... I suppose we are all in the same boat... don't  see our  families that much.. not  like it was  when we were  much younger and families  stayed closer...  so  we learn to count on and depend on  one another  and it is  so sweet..

858.  I am thankful for my Christian Planner...  which is helping me so much to be more accountable in setting  good goals or habits and  then being accountable to  do them

and  working in it is so much fun...  Last night I took it to  Wednesday night church and took notes  in the Bible Study section.....  so great to have places throughout  the planner  each week to record  notes  so they will all be together in one place throughout the year.  I am already  hearing  through the Spirit how I am being prepared for the coming year in various ways...  Praise God!

859.  I am so thankful for  the  Spiritual nudge I had in answer to my  prayer regarding whether or not to commit to choir this year..  This past year,  the  long  amount of time we stand  in singing 4  numbers in a row  with  the pass the peace in between,  was too much for me..  I had to sneak a sit down during the prayer..  my knees aren't what they were.  But  I really felt that  I as discounting  the empowering  by His Spirit to accomplish  His  work in me,and  I  went last night to practice and  all concern about the standing issue  had dissipated.. evaporated right into thin air...  Another praise,  because  not to  boast but I do have a strong  first soprano voice....  which  is needed...  God is soooo good!!!

I wasn't in this  but  that  good looking guy up front was... my  sweetie!!!

860.  I am extremely thankful  that I had  both of my cataract/glaucoma/ astigmatism surgeries behind me and tomorrow I  go  for my post op and to get my  new prescription for my new glasses...  I now can see  the craters on the moon,  but can't see my hand in front of my face...  so readers for everything up close  are warranted, until  I get my new glasses...  then I will exceptionally thankful...  but these surgeries were a huge  dread and  I  am so pleased!!!