Thursday's Thankful List

First, we are doing well - thanks for all your e-mails, phone calls and facebook messages but especially thanks for your prayers for us and for the Ecuador team. You can read the missions blog to find out some of what has gone on during the trip and see a few pics. They did not have internet service last night but hope to have it today to post again before they begin traveling back on Friday. Our week at home has been busy with our regular school and church stuff going on and this weekend we will travel to San Angelo to celebrate Kelsie's birthday with my family.

Last week, I said that I felt a need to have a weekly thankful list as a matter of discipline instead of just a "Thanksgiving" season thing. It's been good for me all week to just think about the things I am thankful for, when you start doing this you realize how blessed you are by God. Psalm 30 says :

"I will extol You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up, And have not let my foes rejoice over me. O LORD my God, I cried out to You, And You healed me. O LORD, You brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name. For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning. Now in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.” LORD, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled. I cried out to You, O LORD; And to the LORD I made supplication: “What profit is there in my God, When I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth? Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me; LORD, be my helper!” You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever."

My Thursday Thankful List:

• Friends that pray, support and encourage us
• Kelsie's sweet spirit toward others
• Coffee - this week I needed it EVERY morning
• Facebook chatting - we got to talk to Wayne using this without paying a gazillion dollars to talk on the phone
• The fact that we are healthy
• The opportunity for me to be room mom and volunteer at Kelsie's school and be home right now
• During this financial mess - that our house sold before all this stuff happened

Hope you have a good weekend. What about you, do you have a thankful list for the week?