One Thousand Gifts (491-520)

List of 1000 Gifts: (491-520)

Here’s a link to more about what’s behind the “gifts list”: http://www.aholyexperience.com/2006/11/gift-list-thousand-things.html.

I hope you read what’s on the link, for I cannot say it better, and the heart of the site is so warming.

And so, I begin again where I left off last fall…thanking God, attempting to cultivate a heart of thanksgiving by His grace, in a season of thanksgiving, for all the little things he graces me with each day as I see it…

491. perfect coffee today and time to drink it 492. no fever in the house 493. a 70s fall day 494. surprised by the fullness of color in just two days, having missed driving the kids to school since last Friday with Red having been sick. 495. quiet house 496. children to tend to 497. moist chicken breast, mashed potatoes, green beans, mac & cheese, Sister Shubert rolls and a table full of family last night 498. cleaning the ’sick sheets’…fresh smells in the house 499. lime green coffee cup 500. favorite sweaters 501. comfie jeans 502. field trips 503. goals for the day 504. a slower pace 505. normalcy 506. health: bagdad report, larry pop is okay–home this week for dr. clearance before returning. 507. new tshirt for Nate he’s excited about (Phineos and Furb) 508. Godilock’s pride making academic team captain this meet (yeah!) 509. Boy Wonder’s pride over publishing the yearbook for school on STLP, showing me the software this am. 510. Cinnamon Poptartarts 511. Lucky Charms 512. Golden Grahams Cereal 513. Brownies 514. Football Season-Scrapbooking Season 515. Clean Floors (soon to be, I hope) 516. Blue Skies 517. Fall Scenes 518. Mums 519. Corn stalks 520. Grace–time for everything, a holy pace…by grace alone.