To grandmother's house we go;
The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh,Through (the) white and drifted snow!
Over the river and through the woods,
To have a first-rate play;
Oh, hear the bells ring, "Ting-a-ling-ling!"
Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day!
Oh, hear the bells ring, "Ting-a-ling-ling!"
Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day!
Just a few verses of this old song sung often around Thanksgiving brings a picture perfect occasion to mind, doesn't it?
We head out to northern Minnesota for a white Thanksgiving with our daughter and family. It's been a year since we all have been together so we are looking forward to great food, games, snowmobile rides and more food. Just getting to where our daughter and family live takes some doing. A car ride to Las Vegas, over night stay, fly out early the next day to Fargo, North Dakota, drive three hours in our rented car right to their place. Is it worth it, yes, yes, yes, are we thankful, yes, yes, yes. So today when I read a post by Abby over at Chapter 37 titles, Give Thanks in Everything...the value of "In" my heart was shook by the words of this woman. Her world is not picture perfect by a long shot, yet through her not so picture perfect life comes these words. It's the last paragraph that shook me. I have included the link also to her blog post. Click over there and read it all, you will not be sorry, you will be blessed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We head out to northern Minnesota for a white Thanksgiving with our daughter and family. It's been a year since we all have been together so we are looking forward to great food, games, snowmobile rides and more food. Just getting to where our daughter and family live takes some doing. A car ride to Las Vegas, over night stay, fly out early the next day to Fargo, North Dakota, drive three hours in our rented car right to their place. Is it worth it, yes, yes, yes, are we thankful, yes, yes, yes. So today when I read a post by Abby over at Chapter 37 titles, Give Thanks in Everything...the value of "In" my heart was shook by the words of this woman. Her world is not picture perfect by a long shot, yet through her not so picture perfect life comes these words. It's the last paragraph that shook me. I have included the link also to her blog post. Click over there and read it all, you will not be sorry, you will be blessed.
Consistent thanks to God, for the unchangeable fact of God, offered in my current situation is the key that frees a person from ever being a captive to circumstance, to feelings, to any single thing I don’t like about myself or my life…God is bigger than those circumstances, God is bigger than those feelings. God is the center, God is the focus, God is the reason, God is the hope, God is the answer. Never mind what I feel about today! We aren’t discussing a sort of thanks that depends on today! “Today” doesn’t get me out of bed, but God does. Thanks in everything does not in anyway take the significance from the very real experiences we have, but it does take away the sting that may be in those experiences. The sugar added to your tea does not turn the water’s color back to clear, it turns the taste. Thanks is a gift we give to God, which He richly returns to us. Thanks is our personal invitation for coffee and cake with our Creator. Thanks meets us at the door of God’s throne room, it offers a seat, it fluffs the pillows, and adds a log on the fire. It is here, thanks tells us, it is right here, in this Presence in this place that there is fullness of joy. And that is the value of in. /http://blog.chapterthirtyseven.com/about/
Psalms 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence
is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
What are you thankful "in"?
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