Blessings
Pressure – It can turn a lump of coal into a flawless diamond or an average person into a perfect basket case.
2007 is a year that would probably make it into my “Top Ten Toughest Years” list if I had one. It would be up there with 1997 and our first term to Romania, learning a language and a culture while enduring months of "morning" sickness. 1999 would be on there too. It started out with a frantic trip to the Romanian emergency room to stitich up my tiny baby’s severed finger. Mid-year we left the country that we had so grown to love in spite of many hardships. Each of those years is at least a chapter in my book that I will one day write. I know that life can be worse but one thing that I have learned is that when you are in your personal storm, life is dark and frightening.
This year has had a lengthy list of challenges. Thankfully I’ve discovered blogging and I’ve already shared many of them with you. Looking at the distress and adversity alone would truly make me a basket case. Praise the Lord that I have Him to cling to, rely on and trust even when life becomes overwhelming. Praise the Lord that I also have a list of blessings that cause the account of burdens to look meager at best.
Here are a few blessings off the top of my head and in no particular order. I may add more as I think of them.
· A husband who loves me
· And provides for his family
· Awesome children
· A comfortable home
· Health
· Time spent with my parents
· Cars to get us where we need to go
· And back again
· Salvation
· Eternal security
· God’s Word for comfort and instruction
· Peace of God
· And peace with God
· Unexpected gifts both financial and material
· The internet so that we can easily talk with friends in Romania
· Making new friends
· Gabe’s success at Chick Fil-A
· God’s great love for me
· Mercies that are new every morning (read between the lines – we don’t have to wait until January 1 to start over)
· Answered prayer
· You, my dear friend, who cares enough to read my blog
How has God blessed you this year?
Labels: Blessings, Care of God, God's Provision, God's Word
posted by KarenW at
4:03 PM
4 Comments:
Maybe I'm being too simplistic, but I think I can summarize the ways God has blessed me with one word.
HOPE.
He's given me HOPE in the midst of my struggles.
He's given me HOPE in the midst of uncertainty and fear.
He's given me HOPE for the future.
I am facing 2008 with tremedous HOPE because of all He's done in 2007.
Wonderful!
God has blessed me in immeasurable ways, often beyond words, and even before I might notice. He has blessed me with friendships (that includes you!); with gifts to share and a means to do that. He has blessed me with answered prayer: sometimes, before the words touch my lips; when my heart's desire is about to burst out; or before I even thought to ask. AMEN.
I'm with irritable mother...He has given me HOPE. Hope that I will become closer to becoming like him, Hope that I will someday be able to put these internal struggles to rest, Hope that today will be better than yesterday.
Blessings for 2008
The greatest gift that He blessed me with in 2007 was life. I almost died twice (I didn't use those words on my blog, I just said that I had been sick and in the hospital). So I realize what a gift each day is. But even that doesn't compare to the gift of eternal life!
Tammy
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