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Today we are asked to think of one place we are thankful for. Right away when I read this I knew what I was going to write.
Close your eyes with me and imagine this:
Your surrounded by gorgeous green mountains, Your floating in the middle of a spectacular lake the color of emeralds. the breeze if blowing gently and all you hear is the splashing of the waves against the boat. You feel the warm sunshine beating down on your face and close your eyes from the brightness. Did you put on sunscreen? Well you had better get it on because you won’t even know your getting burned because of the amazing weather you don’t even realize.
Sometimes you just go to the middle of the lake and just float, but lots of time you go camping on the many different islands around the 30 mile stretch of lake. This was our favorite thing to do when we lived in upstate New York. We even wrote a song about Lake George during one weekend of camping. It pretty much sums up the Lake.
Sung to the tune of Home, Home on the Range.
Lake George is the place, where you fall on your face, and the water cold freeze you to death.
You could ski or could swim, but you wouldn’t want to go in, to the freezing could waters of Lake George.
Home home at Lake George, Where the mosquito’s gorge on your blood, Where its 50 degrees below zero and you with you brought a hero, to the freezing cold waters of Lake George.
It certainly doesn’t paint the picture of Lake George that I have in my head, It certainly was fun writing it when we were camping one weekend. I guess it shows we were probably only about 10 or 12. What a great memory about Lake George that I have.
So as you can tell, Lake George is the place I am thankful for.
The thankfulness verse for today is 1 Thess. 5:18 give thanks in all circumstance; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Yikes, this is certainly a hard verse to follow. Give thanks in all circumstances. When my car breaks down, Give thanks. When my mother dies, give thanks. When my children won’t cooperate, give thanks. When my marriage isn’t going good, give thanks. When life is just hard, give thanks.
If you give thanks during difficult situations it certainly cuts down on the complaining and the bad attitude that puts you into an ungrateful spirit and a spirit of negativity. I think that is why it tells us to give thanks in all circumstances. We naturally go toward complaining and feeling sorry for ourselves. But if we are replacing our negative, complacent, woe is me attitude with thankfulness, There is no room for those b=negative attitudes.
Well that turned out to be more of a sermon than I planned for. But i am certainly preaching to the choir. I definitely need for thanksgiving in my life. That is the exact reason I decided to write this thankfulness blog.
Signing off from one woman to another,
Jenny Wren.
Goodness, I have got some catching up to do! I always feel behind, but am grateful for the days I can catch up.
Day 5 The sound I am most thankful for on Day 5 was the hum of our car’s engine. I had just got the car back from the Collision Center of Andover because a sweet little deer stepped out in front of me a few weeks ago on my way home. While the kids and I were grateful for the Elantra from the rental place, we sure appreciate the edge more now. Note to self – we will not be interested much in the Elantra for our next car.
Car engines – Yay God!
Its really cool how these things take me to things i just take for granted. Like the hum of the car engine. or that I can’t even hear the car engine (since my children might drown out that hum) I am thankful for their little voices drowning it out at times too. Thank you for your comments.