My help comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth. He will not let you fall. Your guardian will not fall asleep.  ...The LORD guards you from every evil. He guards your life. The LORD guards you as you come and go, now and forever.  Psalm 121:2-3, 7-8 GW

We give thanks not for conflict

But for grace to forgive and move on.

We give thanks not for evil

But for all the good that still exists.

We give thanks not for pain

But that pain and heartache draws us to the

One who comforts and heals.

We give thanks not for horror or war

But for the peace God provides in the midst of it all.

We give thanks not for hate

But for the love we know inside when we ask Jesus to live within

Filling us with healing, help and hope.

Looking up, we can give thanks--no matter what.  

Counting my blessing, not my complaints.

Happy Thanksgiving.   

Posted by Carolyn R Scheidies at 9:08 AM CST

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II Peter 1:13, 15 MKJV But I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by a reminder,... And I will also be diligent to cause you to always have memory of these things after my departure.

We forget so easily. That's one reason candidates know they can twist the truth about their positions; we don't keep in mind what they said yesterday much less last year. We also forget our own words and misdeeds.

Even worse, we remember our complaints but not our blessings. How much better to deliberately recall God's blessings in our lives and bow before him in gratitude.

Psalm 1:1-2 MKJV Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is only in the law of the LORD; and in His law he meditates day and night.

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