12 Days of Thanksgiving

During Dale's first pastorate, I started a blessing book. I took an old binder notebook that had been my grandmother's and began to record in it the blessings we received from others. How I wish I had started it when Dale was in college! I always have kept the book visible, so we as a family only had to look at it to be reminded of God's goodness and faithfulness to us. Anyone of us could add to it, though that task was mostly mine. Whether a card of encouragement, firewood, help with a project around the house, financial blessing, to tomatoes. Though out the book of Deuteronomy we are reminded to 'remember'... what God had done, what He had provided, how He had lead, so at times, at the dinner table, I would take the blessing book and read from it to remind us of how the Lord had blessed us.

I have had to add pages to it over the years, again showing God's faithfulness. A blessing book is has been a traditional wedding gift for us, I wonder how many have used it as such.

I still write in it when I have been blessed by someone, so I recently decided on a new tradition for myself; The 12 days before Thanksgiving, I will go back over the entries of the past year, and record a few blessings as a reminder to me, of how the Lord has cared and blessed me, I hope this little exercise will remind you as well, of how gracious God has been in the provision of life. Blessings.

December 2009
-Flowers from Church, marking one year since Dale's passing
-$40 from D.
-Kindling from Daddy
-Kindling from Bill's class
-Wood from Pastor