Monday, February 28, 2011

Thanking God for...

{Gifts 123-161}

- {Slightly} different numbers on the scale!
- Jump Knee Tucks - to the glory of God
- A God who heals, even healing hearts

- Eric's grocery store run, saving me a trip
- Sunshine, 65 degrees, and a cool breeze
- Finding my cell phone at the end of the driveway
- Cozy pajamas
- Big girl's crazy curls and protruding belly

- Bread's aroma filling the house
- Shorts! and balmy walking weather
- A throat's prompting to use fewer words
- Contacts, glasses
- Bella's fever, preventing me from spreading my germs

- A huge glass of water right beside my bed when I awoke
- A complete stranger rescuing Eric's phone from the Walmart parking lot
- Liquid antibiotics
- A bed
- Free antibiotic samples from our pediatrician

- The smell of fertilized farmland, Pennsylvania's perfume
- Grilled sticky buns from Kum Esse
- Breakfast with Ab and the babies
- Black shoes bouncing great-grandchildren
- The link and other places to run

- The balcony and other places to jump (and cool off)
- Overalled husband driving
- The constant stream of food at a five couse dinner keeping Haven entertained and satisfied
- The quiet book
- Wrinkled beauty everywhere

- Christ's redemption of one man being worth more than two thousand pigs (Mark 5)
- Gloria - the pest - reminding me that all people have souls
- A long afternoon chat with Uncle Al
- Birch beer, Lebanon bologna, and Cooper Sharp
- Pixie-beautiful Geneva running with Elijah and Haven

- Drew's spontaneity, learning more about the 2nd Exodus, bonus hours with Lauren
- "Oh, like a doop?"
- No longer having to go through the cleansing rituals post-sickness described in Leviticus 15
- A husband with whom I LOVE spending time
- Home, at long last

- In-laws who work hard to give us good gifts - food in the fridge, a clean house, and more! - and, in the doing, show us Christ

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