Today I rushed out into the cool fall morning. The leaves were falling off the trees already. I couldn’t help but be so thankful to the Lord. I am so thankful for what Jesus Christ has done for me. Thankful he is always near. Thankful for the changing seasons and thankful for the health I have and enjoy. I am thankful for my family and for the many blessings He has brought into my life. He keeps blessing when there is no reason for a blessing. When I think of what I deserve again I realize how blessed I am. I think of His blessings being new every morning and His great faithfulness to me.
I think of all the times I had fears and I could trust him fully, of all the sins He readily forgives, of the things He has given when I didn’t deserve anything at all. Today is a day where I am thankful. But shouldn’t every day I be just as eager to count my blessings? To trust His unfailing, strong hand and to watch Him lead me beside still and, might I add very beautiful, waters?
Fall is here a season to be thankful for what He has given to all of us. To count my blessings and to breathe out a prayer of thankfulness for all He has done. Where would we be without His love? Today I got to thinking about how much He has given and how much He loves me and I had to think why? The most beautiful answer is just a firm answer that He just does. That is the best thing in the world…He just loves us with no reason why.
I know sometimes we just don’t feel thankful. We are sinful and we are struggling with something or unhappy about a certain thing the best thing to ever do is to choose to be thankful anyway! I often think I have to feel happy or I have to feel thankful and that my dear friend is not the answer.
We choose to be thankful and that’s what Christ wants of His children. I have done that at times where I haven’t been bursting with a thankful spirit I begin to count my blessings and then I realize how much I have to smile about and be thankful for. You have so much! Be thankful and tell the One who gives so much how thankful you really are today.
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I am looking forward to posting more in-depth thoughts on beautiful femininity. I have been thinking about this subject a lot and it means a lot to me. Girls need to hear more on this subject!! So ..I am thinking and writing more thoughts to post on this important topic in the near future.
Also I have added another page “Speaking Ministry” to my website you can find the link on the side bar to the right.
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Great post Holly!! And so true!!!!
In Christ,
Hannah
Well here I am on your “site for young ladies”…..
But I do concur, God is good, and His handiwork is amazing. I went outside tonight under the stars with the cool breeze in my face and the pines whispering in the wind. God is exceedingly good. I am grateful.
On another note I can relate too on learning to be thankful….
I will be looking forward to your in-depth thougths on beautiful feminity. As a matter of fact I hope to find one sometime. Any suggestions? 
Hi Holly, I found your website through Karilee’s…I go to church with her brother, Brian. Good thoughts. I look forward to more thoughts on beautiful femininity! This subject is sadly missing in our day! Loved your essay on “Created to be a Woman”…
Comment by Leah on September 27th, 2006 @ 6:31 amI just subscribed to your dad’s website and read the profiles on all you children. I saw that you were in full time mininstry and it warmed my heart that such a young girl had already found a way to serve her God full time. I am in full time ministry too, but was only called at the age of 50 - it took me a long time to find my way!
I work in a home for abandoned HIV positive children in South Africa. It is a very rewarding ministry and I am thankful that the Lord has brought me here to try to make a positive difference in the lives of these vulnerable children. See our website: http://www.lambano.org.za and please pray for this ministry.
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You are right Holly; we do have much to be thankful for every day. We get so caught up in ourselves we often forget what Christ did for us and there should we all be joyful. God has been very good to me, He has given me so much more than I deserve. When I stop and think about all the things that make me unhappy, I can’t help but realize how temporary they are and how eternal and abundant the joy and peace in Christ is.
Comment by SC on September 20th, 2006 @ 10:36 am