How to begin your week right...Gratitude

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul

~Henry Ward Beecher

The only way to life a full of gratitude to my ABBA FATHER is to always have my eyes and heart open to the blessings, both big and small, both beautiful and ugly, both extraordinary and mundane that surround me every moment of every day.  The way to combat the cares and worries of this world is by being ever aware of the largeness of God's love for me.

There is a blog I love to read for she writes about the substance of life, the beautiful moments, and the hard truths.  Her name is Ann Voskamp.  You can find her at A Holy Experience.  She has begun what she refers to as the Gratitude Community.  Each Monday she seeks to find the beautiful among the mundane, ordinary and ugly of life.  It is transforming people, it is transforming me and my family.  It is not hard once the FATHER opens your eyes to all HE has given you.  The goal is about living a life of worship!  How else can you come to the ONE who has given it all for for you?  How else can the darkness flee but by continual praise?  1000 gifts, that was her challenge, that is my challenge.  My family and I started our school year with Gratitude Journal.  Now I am going to join her in the blogging world and I hope you will be encouraged!  Come, join us!

1.  My Abba daddy who loves me too much to leave me in my filth

2.  The early morning sun shining on my face as I seek my FATHERS

3.  The words of LIFE spoken by a GOD who pursues me and a daddy who loves me and thinsk I'm enough

4.  The start of a new day, new beginnings

5.  Fresh revelation

6.  A straight path before me

7.  Birds singing praises along with me

8.  Grateful, sweet children

9.  New, big kitchen

10.  My hardworking husband