Thankful Tuesdays!

Last Tuesday,  I was thankful for friends,  today I am thankful for  LOVE  from the best friend one could ever have.  That friend is Jesus!

In the book, “Carolina Mist” by Mariah Stewart, one of the characters says to the main heroine:

“When you get right down to it, Love is all there is.  Everything else –Money, property, material possessions, -- can vanish in the blink of an eye.  But Love is always inside you.  It will always be with you.  No one can steal it from you or rob you of its joys.  No amount of money can buy it for you, nor can it be sold on the open market.  It cannot be swept away by flood or lost to fire.  It is totally portable, costs nothing, but outlasts everything else you will ever possess. There is nothing else that is yours, than cannot be taken away from you, except your memories, of course.  Even death is powerless in the face of love.  And if you do not understand these basics of truths, then I greatly fear for your future, and pray for your soul.”

Mother Thersa’s wrote:

Who Jesus is to me?

Jesus is the Word, to be spoken.

Jesus is the Truth, to be told.

Jesus is the Way, to be walked.

Jesus is the Light, to be lit.

Jesus is the Life, to be lived.

Jesus is the Love, to be loved.

Jesus is the Joy, to be shared.

Jesus is the Sacrifice, to be offered.

Jesus is the peace, to be given.

Jesus is the Hungry, to be fed.

Jesus is the Thirsty, to be satiated.

Jesus is the Naked, to be clothed.

Jesus is the sick, to be healed.

Jesus is the Lonely, to be loved.

I am so grateful that Jesus Loves ME!  Yes ME!  With all my faults and shortcomings, I am perfect, for I am created in his image, and with a Friend like him beside me, guiding my vessel, I can sail through this life, knowing I am as good as I can be.  

He  Loves YOU also.  With a Love that is all encompassing and all forgiving. 

Thankful Tuesdays!

   On this Thankful Tuesday, I am grateful for friends.  Friends who are there for you through thick and thin, friends who teach you something, who are willing to give you "the shirt off thier backs"  if you need it more than them.
   We have a friend who lives in a (nursing/retirement) home, in another city and is challenged.  Gary has known him for over 15 years.  He is 65 years old and has a limited mentality capacity.  He has lost his mother, his father, and just recently a brother.  Yet his attitude is happy, and he takes such pleasure in all the simple things.  A bottle of pop, a good meal, an ice cream on a stick, watching a squirrel eat a peanut, or a visit from us.  He sits outside, in the rain, the cold, or the heat, on the day he knows we will be there, waiting for us.  He looks forward to our visits. We visit him, and each time, we give him a few dollars to buy a pepsi, or a coke, and he is always so grateful.   His own brother rarely visits him.  
   This man has taught us so much.  He has no idea how he has touched our hearts, he simply knows us as "his friends" no strings attached.
   One never knows who will teach them something.  There is something that can be learned in every situation.
   We are at Jesus' disposal.  If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim his word in the street, that's all right, everything is all right.  We must say, "I belong to you LORD, you can do with me, whatever YOU will"  This is the strength and this is the JOY of the Lord. 

Thankful Tuesdays!

Today, I am grateful for those men and women who are willing to lay down thier lives for our freedoms.  Although I strongly disagree with our Canadian Men and Women being in Afghanistan, I am 100% behind our troops.  Canada has lost 157 Men and Women in this conflict.   The Portraits of Honour Tour was here, and I took some photos.  This Tour is crossing Canada, so that as many Canadians as possible will have the priviledge of looking at it.  It hopes to touch the Hometown of every soldier that we have lost.

May God Bless Each of these young people, and hold in his hands, thier families, giving them strength and aiding them as they mourn thier loved one.

This post clearly shows the needless losses of War, as Gary has mentioned in our posts in "The War Series"

For more information on this Tour, follow the link below:
http://www.portraitsofhonour.ca/index.cfm?page=tour

Thankful Tuesdays!

Today, on this Thankful Tuesday,  I am thankful, that God will never give us more than we can bear, and he is right there beside us, helping us, giving us strength, all we have to do is ask!

I am thankful for my health.

Yes I have some health issues, but I am able to control them with meds and exercise.  As does Gary. 

We all have our cross to bear, for some it is health issues, other have varied items, be they money, stress, or any number of other things.  Reach out to Him, He is there... willling to help...

We may not always know what it is he has in store for us, for we cannot even begin to comprehend the "larger picture" that he has in mind, for us, and for our lives.

Thankful Tuesdays!

This Thankful Tuesday, I am thankful for all the wonderful gifts God has given us collectively as his Children.  Some of us have gifts that are more easily identified than others, but each of us has one or more gifts that we can use to help others. 

Have you found your gift? Do you use it to praise God? 

How can you do more?

Help a neighbour, 

help a friend,

help a stranger,

help those in need,

be they near or far off in a distant country.

More so, have faith in yourself that you can help another.

Beauty in the Heart,

 Knows NO Language

  

Thankful Tuesdays

   Today I am thankful for my husband.  I have told you a little bit of my history, in a previous Thankful Tuesday posting, and I have shared my gratefulness for my family, however today, I wish to single out my Husband, Gary.

   His never ending love and support is such a change from my previous relationship.  He never ceases to amaze me.  Our partnership is built on never ending Love and mutual respect, kindness and thoughtfulness. 


   This is a poem I wrote for Gary:

I think of all the special ways

You show you care for me,

The loving way you are always there,

Has blessed our Family.

You always give your very best,

In everything you do,

And that is why, I thank the Lord,

He's Blessed my life with You!

He has over the past 4 years, written many for me as well, and I will share one with you.

Just after we met, we went to Niagara Falls for the day.  It is one of my favourite places in the world, to connect and commune with God.  A short while later, we were walking on the beach and I found a man's gold ring on the beach, it basically ended up on my bare big toe, as we walked along. 

The Untold Story

Washed upon the shore, for my love to discover enchantment and more.  This new beginning: the fallen of old, to the treasure of ageless gold, the beginning of a story untold. 

We sat along one of the wonders of the world, as the mist landed upon our face, granting such a peace.  We had found each other, and our love was not to cease. 

You my love are a gift from Heaven, granting me everlasting peace:  My angel was sent to love me, to share our responsibility to the lost.

I will cherish you, for our new beginning is as joyful as the sky is a radiant blue.  This new beginning is much a new existence to guide people back to the garden, when man and woman became one, for many to hear the Shadow of Truth, to deliver mankind to a love that always becomes...

You are the first woman, and my greatest strength, to love you and cherish you, for you.  I thank God for the gift found in the sand, for us to walk upon many shores to discover treasures greater than gold.

The storm has since passed and my princess will walk with me to the gate leading to Heaven’s door.  So walk with me, as we embrace to be witnessed by the human race.

So my love, each new beginning may in fact be the end of something more inspirational, only to discover in each other a new and exciting future. 

To start from here to hold each other so close, so dear, all we don’t know is the year.  Walk with me, and I’ll walk with you, and where we go, will ultimately be a new beginning.

This piece of driftwood was on the beach the day I found the gold ring in the sand.

So Today, on Thankful Tuesday, I Thank God for my Husband, Gary.  I love you!

Thankful Tuesdays!

On This Thankful Tuesday, I want to hear what YOU are thankful for.

  I have shared with you some of the things I am grateful for, over the past months, and now it is your turn!

Leave a comment, and share with me what it is you are grateful for.

Thanks for Sharing!

God Bless,

Kitty and Gary