Five Minute Friday: Grateful

After missing several weeks, I'm again participating in Five Minute Fridays hosted by Lisa-Jo Baker, encouraging bloggers to write on a prompt unedited for five minutes.  I'm posting this week's post a little early :)

The prompt: Grateful

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Nope its not Thanksgiving.

But counting our blessings, giving thanks, being grateful, doesn't end after the holiday season.

Its a perspective, an outlook on life, a lens to see everything else by.

I just finished reading the book One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voscamp, and I was reminded again and again... counting gifts builds trust, lives faith, and creates heart connection to the Giver.

So today I am grateful.

For the request of snap peas for breakfast, preschool smiles during our dog's pet week visit, a surprise in the mailbox, rain that makes the grass green, the laughter from watching the chickens, bubble chasing, tickles and giggles, a little voice asking for just one more Bible story, a fireplace to take away the evening chill, and a quiet house at the end of the night.

And tomorrow I will be grateful.

Because I live daily in His Grace.

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