Count your many blessings, name them one by one. Count your many blessings, see what God has done.
When was the last time you sat down and really though about how much God has blessed you? Here we are, less than a week before Thanksgiving, so the thoughts should not be completely foreign to you. But have you? Really? Sometimes God has to almost dump the blessing in our lap, literally, before we see it and think to praise the One from whom it came! On Wednesday, my brave watchdogs let me know that something was amiss: we had a person walking down our road. So I walked out to see what he wanted. He was with the utility company - trimming trees away from the power lines. I visited with him for a while. Then he asked if we'd like any of the mulch when they finish the trimming and shredding. I was delighted! We've wanted to try mulching the garden with wood chips rather than with grass ever since we watched the DVD Back to Eden. Later on in the day, the same worker let us know that they'd leave an old dead tree for us, if we wanted it. Ron had been looking at that tree, wondering how to get it down without a) killing himself, and b) taking out the power lines. All of us took the pickup up there later in the day and got an entire load before dark. Then Thursday we went back and cleaned up the rest of it. That's probably a good week to two weeks of good, dry elm! Elm, in case you don't know, has the highest BTU. It's a great wood to burn, if you don't have to split it. As Ron and I marveled over the events of the day, we counted our blessings! 1) wood; 2) Ron didn't have to cut down that dangerous tree; 3) all of the trees are trimmed away from our lines again; 4) a huge pile of mulch and 5) a promise of more mulch and more wood. Maybe that seems like a silly thing to you, but I'm counting it all as God's provision.
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AuthorCynthia Saladin is a homeschooling mom of three, with a passion for teaching them about God and having a personal relationship with him. Archives
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