Thankful THursday, 1000 Gifts, Eucharisteo

As I share my blessings I am, also, counting them as part of the 1000 Gifts theme from Ann Voskamp!

 

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  With all the circumstances we are living through at this time in our nation's history:

• Coronavirus pandemic
• call for  self quarantine
• concern for the elderly especially with extenuating health issues_ of which I am one
• Concern about  enough health resources to  care for the exponentially growing numbers of    the sick across the nation

I will not be deterred from thanking the Lord  for His loving kindness, mercy, compassion, and provision! 

996.  I thank you, Father, for the wonderful life  my family has  had..  you provided  for everything we ever needed and  my parents  lived to a ripe old age..I love how you have provided for Hubs,  and I  and  how  our children  live a very happy life with their two daughters.  You are in control of every thing in our lives and  we put our trust and faith in YOU!

997.  This year  has been  year of trial for us... my shingles, my  knee  problems,  now this  covid-19, but even so I know that even in trial you are in control.. YOU allow us to experience trial to grow us closer to you,  to grow our faith, and  learn to trust you even more..I have learned much about your love and compassion through pain and suffering and  now I  am able to apply  You to  the situations we face today.. For that I am so thankful.  I am not scared or fearful at all. I am old,  infirm, and  have  diabetes and kidney  disease, yet,  nothing ever takes You by surprise.. If you bring me  to it,  you take me through it, or take me home!  I praise God for my heavenly Father!

998.I am thankful for the godly wisdom of our daughter and son in law.  Amanda is a microbiologist and  was a cancer researcher in Cambridge, Ma  while she worked before the girls came along.  Of course, the incidence of the virus is much more in Massachusetts around where they live.. But  everyone is taking  the presidential  recommendations up there to heart...  everything is closed or  fast food for take out.  Amanda said she wouldn't touch that food with a ten foot pole..  just because you never know.. Not to be  rude,  but  prudent. People are working from home.  People are taking quarantine seriously because they understand the possible coming glut on medical resources  which would stymie the ability to adequately serve everyone who may need respirators, etc.Her  wise words have defintely taken hold of my heart and at this time I am quarantined.. stopped my allergy shots and therapy for the duration. I can do my exercises here at home. Even though no cases have been reported in our  area up to  at least 6o miles away, but  that doesn't mean there aren't  people walking around    whose symptoms haven't manifest yet...which is exactly what I heard from the  top  doctor at Johns Hopkins.  So  the numbers are actually  much higher than are being reported.  Thank you, Lord, for using people in my life to help me understand the seriousness of the situation and take the measures I need for my health and safety.

999. I am so thankful for Spring.  A time of new beginnings...  Spring has not been cancelled.  We only need to look outside and see the handiwork of God!

1000.  I am so very thankful  for  making it to 1000 as I started this long ago  sharing my  blessings along the way. I am probably most thankful for my precious husband who has taken such loving and  unending  care of me  through  these last 48 years.  Next week  we will celebrate those 48 years  of marriage,  but we've actually  been going around together for 53 years.  Our first date was  October 16, 1968.  It was  homecoming weekend of our senior year and we had prearranged to meet up at the high school   bonfire.  From there we walked  several blocks to the Tastee Freeze for some hot chocolate.  We sat on the grounds  of the park and just talked.  I knew he was special  from the very start.  From then on, there was no body else for me!