Tag: Count Your Blessings

  • Count Your Blessings – Day 11 Happy Veterans Day

    Happy Veterans Day! Do something nice for a veteran. If you don’t know  a vet then write a veteran. You can write to any solider at Operation Gratitude here: https://www.operationgratitude.com/writeletters/ We have a friend overseas so we’ll be sending  care package. Count Your Blessings – day 11 My spiritual gift is service, to that makes…

  • Count Your Blessings – Day 10

    So far this has been the hardest page. Do I pick people I know or famous people who did courageous things? I admire Malala the Pakistani girl who was shot, but continued  to speak out about treatment of women in Pakistan, or famous people like Eleanor Roosevelt or artists I love like Mary Engelbreit? I…

  • Count Your Blessings – Day 9

    Day 9 – Have you ever been in the belly of the whale? Did you feel alone? We spent 9 months in the belly of the whale. Our oldest son got a rare abscess in his kidney when he was 7. It took the doctors a few weeks to figure out that it was an…

  • County Your Blessings Day 8

    Can you believe it’s only day 8 and you’ve already written 36 gratitudes? I’m thinking of other things that I want to capture, so my list will be over 100, how about you? Today let’s have a little fun and list your top 5 favorite  movies or books. I might have to do both. My…

  • Count Your Blessings Day 7

    Day 7: 1st Thessalonians 5:16-18 says Pray without ceasing. I am not sure what the Lord means by that – how do you get anything else accomplished? But I take Him at his word, and try to lift up little prayers throughout the day for the things He puts on my heart. The Lord is…

  • Count Your Blessings Day 6

    What things do you take for granted? We are so used to our creature comforts that we take them for granted. Personally I hate the cold and the Lord reminded me that I take my warm house for granted. So in the winter months I purpose to say thank you for my warm house when…

  • Count Your Blessings Day 5

    Day 5 – Proverbs 16:3 Commit your plans to the Lord and they will be accomplished Do you have any goals written down? The Lord gives us a short life and expects great things of us; what three things do you want to accomplish? Write down your goals and then doodle something about your goals.…

  • Count Your Blessings Day 4

      Day 4  Psalms 96:11-12: Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;Let the sea [a]roar, and [b]all it contains; Let the field exult, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy. (I just realized that I did not include the verse reference on the…

  • Count Your Blessings Day 3

    It’s Day 3, so let’s think about where you live. What are you thankful about your home or where you live? I love my house and the fact that I live within 10 miles of family. I feel so blessed to have our home. It’s not the house I originally wanted, but I can see…

  • Count Your Blessings – Challenge 2

    Day 2 is about focusing on the people that the Lord has put in your life that you cherish. Draw simple faces, I drew my family as snowmen, because I just don’t do faces all that well. I also added a little element of their careers to each picture. Take time to pray for each…