Create Gratitude Journals To Keep Track Of Daily Blessings
Go to the Dollar Store and pick you up a cheap journal for $1.00 or even a nice notebook! I remember when my husband and I (and our oldest daughter - only child at that time and I was 7 months pregnant with our second child) came here for him to attend Bible College! Those were definately some trying days--no--let's say YEARS!!! It didn't take much at all for us to count any tiny detail a blessing--we were desperate for encouragement in ANY form! BUT----GOD was ALWAYS faithful and looking back I wouldn't trade those years for anything! I remember one winter, we rented this...well, it looked like a VERY nice place...but come to find out I don't believe there was much insulation in the place at all. We nearly froze in the winter and our heat bill was out of this world. It was aweful. So there was a fireplace but being an older - fixed up, except the insulation part - home we didn't feel comfortable using the fireplace as it was. Someone in our church had an wood stove insert so we were able to use that. Then we had wood delivered and one of our older neighbors came over - just out of the blue - and said they wanted to pay for the wood that was delivered. What a blessing! We didn't end up having to buy a whole lot of wood...people began to offer us wood so we were very fortunate! That's just ONE of the MANY things GOD blessed us with during those 'trying' but GROWING years.
Start a Gratitude Journal TODAY---and when you experience one of those 'down times' pull your journal out and be uplifted by the reminder of the many blessings GOd has sent your way. God is SO good!!!!!!!!!...not just around thanksgiving but 12 months a year!
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