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:
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!
