Welcome to Thankful Thursday - February 7, 2013

Greetings Sweet Friends,

How has your week been?

Fun? Sad? maybe even a lil mad,

Productive?  Busy? helpful? 

thankful? peaceful? Joyful? 

Compassionate? heartfelt?

Have to say my week has been a mixed bag 

of all of these emotions.  It has been a busy

week, but a good week.  Started a Blissful 

White Wed. post but never got to finish it, 

so will just save it for next week. lol

Will sort of clue you in during my Thankful

Thursday post today.

#1

I am thankful 

for the fun and joyful time we had with

our kids over the weekend,  We saw 

Scott and Megan on Friday night, and 

Dee and Jerry on Sunday afternoon and

evening for the super bowl.  Dee and I

gabbed and ate, the guys watched the

football...............works for us!!  lol

#2

I am thankful

for Megan and Scott are all ready for 

their wee one,  the room is pretty much

finished,  a lil bit of wall art to do yet,

but if she went to the hospital today

she would be well prepared for the home-

coming with the baby.  They even have 

the car seat in the car!! So that is a real

 blessing and I am sure one less thing

 to be concerned for Mom & Dad to be.

#3

I am thankful

for the joy of getting to wash and see

all their new baby clothes, as Megan,

bless her heart, is suppose to be on the

sofa with her feet propped up once she

gets home from work,  as she is having

trouble with her feet swelling. Don't know

why really, because her weight gain is

perfect, she is all baby,  and usually that

 happens when ladies gain a whole lot of

 weight.  It was nice to be able to help

in a tangible way.

#4

I am thankful

for a number of opportunities this week

to help a family out who is losing a dear

loved one, and reaffirming what they

already know about death and heaven.

#5

I am thankful

to have had the blessing of sitting with

a sweet teenage girl who was about to

lose her beloved grandmother in the middle

of the night.  We talked and cried and tried

to prepare for the worst,  and it came at

about 6 a.m. - it was the worst for she

and her Mom,  but the best God had for

the Grandmother, as she suffering with

the pain from cancer.

#6

I am so thankful

for what Jesus did for us on the cross,  and

how he provided eternal life for those who

just believe and accept what He did for them.

What a hope and blessing we have in our lives

because of that.  It is never goodbye forever

when a loved one dies,  it is only so long until

we meet again.  Truly a Priceless Gift!

John 3:16 in action

#7

I am thankful

for God's grace in these sort of situations and 

how he gives us the love, words to say, and the

 tears and hugs to comfort.

#8

I am thankful

for God's answers to prayers and how he can

protect us in ways that are actually quite humorous.

I have a relative in my life, that did some really

how shall I say it, selfish, deceitful and hurtful 
things when my Mom died over 7 years ago. 
Truly they were devastating to me, as I never 
saw this coming, and it took me months to even
 grasp what had happened, I was in such disbelief 
about it all. I think mainly because I felt so crushed 
that my relationship to this person meant so little 
to her VS things.........
 Some of you probably have a similiar

story as I think most families unfortunately, seem

to have a person like that.  Anyway, I have for-

given her in my heart but truly have no desire

for relationship with her as I feel no trust in her

whatsoever,  but I also want no harm or bad

things to come to her either,  just am hoping

and praying for a change in her heart.  She has

called  about 6 or so times over the years now,

and every time it is because she wants some-

thing........so knowing that does not really

make me gleeful to call her,  if you get my

drift.  She called again this week and I felt
 like I would rather be beat than call her, lol, 
 but hubby and I decided I should return the 
call because who knows, maybe there could

 be a change of heart.  There is no change of

 heart however,  but the Lord is amazing!

Before I call her I always pray first and tell

the Lord....I want to do whatever you want

me to do,  but I am not sure what that is,

so I am praying you give me the words, and

that you help me to say what you want me

to say.  The last 2 times she has called, we

spend a long time just doing casual chit chat

and then she starts to talk about all the things

that she is having to put out money for, and

on and on it goes, and I think well Lord, I

know the reason for the call is coming soon,

and then all of a sudden the phone just goes

dead...........it happened the last time too,

and I tried twice to call her back,  but couldn't

get through then thought maybe this was God's

way of helping me, and you know the exact
 same thing happened again this time, it is 
like he lets her spend an hour or more laying 
all the pretend niceties and poor me ground 
work and then right when she gets to the point
 of asking the phone goes dead, and funny cause
 she never calls me back, so makes me think it
 goes dead on her end too.

I know some people are probably thinking

it is just a coincidence,  but I truly don't,

I feel it was my heavenly Father looking

out for me,  and it makes me smile, for

the bible says he is our protector and an

ever present help in time of need, and I
truly need help dealing with folks like that
cause I just don't understand how someone
can get to be up in their 70's and care
so little about their relationships.

Shocking really!

#9

I am thankful

that no one was killed in a childcare bus

accident with an SUV right around the

corner from me about an hour or so ago.

There were 28 children and none had

to go to the hospital,  a few bumps and

bruises is all, but the bus driver did have

 some neck injuries. The one person driving

the SUV had some bad leg injuries but

the passenger was not hurt.

#10

I am thankful

it is looking like we are gonna get some

rain,  we could sure use some as it has

been quite awhile.

#11
I am thankful
that my hubby just found my blog roll, it
has been lost for a while and I have not
been able to visit anyone who doesn't come
by to visit me first, so if you haven't heard
from me in a while,  that is the reason.
So happy about that!!  My Hero!! 

I am gonna stop here for now,  and get

this posted,  and if I think of something

else I will come back and add it.

Hope you have a really Great  Friday and Weekend, 

 can't believe we are almost to the weekend again 

and 

Valentines day is just one week away!! Whoa

Guess I better start making some plans. lol

Thanks for coming by and be sure to say Hi,