Category: Thankful Thursday

Thankful Thursday-Many Blessings

Posted on by Mary

I know last week was Thanksgiving but we were away for thanksgiving  so there was no blog post about Thanksgiving….Matter of fact my participation in thankful Thursday or any Meme has been less than stellar so hopefully this marks a renewed sense of blog attention.

so what am I thankful for….oh that is a difficult question…not because I don’t know of anything But because there are SOOO many things to be thankful for….So I will pick 5 things

#1- My husband- He is wonderful and realizes that sometimes I just need help…especially when I am sick.  I is such a joy to have my husband as my pastor too.  I get to see him in so many different settings and I love to see him minister to people…what a joy!

#2 My parents-  I am so Thankful that parents stuck by their guns on their rules when I was a kid…..

#3 My kids- because the they make me laugh…they are far from perfect BUT they exude such a joy…joy that is lacking in so many kids today.   Despite their faults they are truly a gift from God

#4 A warm house-  I love our house even though we do not own it …..it’s a church parsonage and what a joy it is to be where we are…..no situation is perfect but beyond a shadow of a doubt we are loved!

#5 My Lord and Savior- without Him  my peace and ability to be satisfied would be non-existant.  or possible.

 ” Because of Him I can face tomoroow, Because of Him all fear is Gone, Because I know who holds the future…Life is worth the living Just because He lives!”

Thankful Thursday- I’m back

Posted on by Mary

Wow it has been a while since I have written a thankful Thursday…Or any post for that matter.

I am so thankful for so many things BUT what am I most thankful for today?

TECHNOLOGY!!!

About 4 or so months ago our family was having dinner with another family.

The family said that they knew of people who were entertaining missionaries and those missionaries were coming down hard on the pastor’s family who  had a dishwasher a washing machine and dryer and and a microwave….the missionary was saying that the pastor’s family had it way too easy and without missing a beat the pastor’s wife said why do you say all of that…you have hired servants in your home (which is very customary in other countries)  These are are just my hired servants who just don’t happen to breathe or talk.

Well today I am SOOO thankful that I have technology in my home. 
I have  a dishwasher, a clothes washer and dryer…an oven and not a fire…a kitchen aid mixer and a microwave!  And I just want to say a great big thank you to the  Lord of heaven who gave wisdom to men to create these wonderful machines….You knew I would need them and use them everyday!

Thankful Thursday

Posted on by Mary

This week has been a FANTASTIC week. Well why you may ask well it’s thankful Thursday and I plan on telling you! First off we have been the pastor’s family of our church for four months now. And what a crazy four months it has been Let’s recap these four months Shall we?

  1. Moved in February 28th
  2. Hubby spoke On March 1 st-our first Sunday here
  3. Next two weeks Unpack unpack unpack
  4. Ladybug gets sick with Bronchitis
  5. Luday bug drinks whole bottle of medicine
  6. the following Sunday I wake up with Pink eye
  7. My Monday afternoon I have the full fledged flu
  8. Tuesday go to the doc and find out I have pinkeye ear infections and the flu
  9. Friday morning hubby nearly dismembers himself and gets eight stitches
  10. Busyness ensues….for three straight months we have something EVERY NIGHT!
  11. 2 deaths in or related to our church
  12. Marriage counseling
  13. visits from family and friends
  14. Speaking engagement for me
  15. a wedding in our church (luckily Hubby wasn’t the pastor in charge)
  16. pastor’s and wives meetings
  17. more counseling
  18. sin issues to take care of
  19. AWANA
  20. AWNA car to make
  21. Sunday school class formed
  22. 50th anniversary for the church
  23. VACATION for TWO weeks (very relaxing)
  24. Come home to Flood
  25. 1 and a half weeks of cleaning up a house i left pretty close to spotless

And that leaves me at this week Clearly i have not mentioned
EVERYTHING we have had to do BUT I think I got the point across!!!!!
This week. PEACE SERENITY RELAXATION
And that is exactly what I am thankful for today… My God who understands when i need a true break. We still have had some things to do this week Somethings caused some stress BUT through all of that this has clearly been the EASIEST week we have experienced since we have been here and Thank you LORD for giving it to me THIS WEEK!

Thanksful Thursday-Wetness

Posted on by Mary

If
you did not read Tuesdays post thenyou don’t know that we had a bit of a
tragedy when we returned home from being a away for two weeks on
vacation. We had a flood the last week we were gone. Not just a small
flood eithr….Our automatic Ice maker in our freezer has a flexi tube
that runs into the floor behind the fridge. Apparently due to Vibration
it rubbed a hole right into the flexi tube and we had a CONSTANT stream
of water for who knows how long. So there was an inch and a half of
water in the kitchen and most of the water had run down through the
floor/ basement ceilieng…Soaked the basement floor , bubbled brand new
4 month old paint on the walls, broke some drop tiles in the basement
bathroon and the floor literally squished when you walked on it! Not
to mention the musty smell that ad over taken the whole house! But
through all of this I have fuound quite a few things to be thankful for:
So here they are in no particular order

  • Hubby wasn’t away by himself when it happened and I was left home alone to deal with all the mess
  • it wasn’t a fire! What a tragedy that would have been to get a
    call or come home to no house or any of our stuff which leads me to..
  • we only lost one thing and we were trying to decided whether or not to get ride of it anyway!
  • It wasn’t that wya for the two full weeks…we would have had serious mold problem and much much more work to do on the house
  • that the carpets are mostly dry now in the basement and all the wet in the ceiling has been removed
  • That it wasn’t sewage in our basement…two pastors ago a problem
    with town sewer caused sewage to back up into the parsonage and well it
    wasn’t pretty and the pastor’s family had to vacate the house for a
    while since the smell was so bad!
  • No one was hurt
  • it’s an easy fix

So what makes you thankful?