An Attitude of Gratitude

Thank you for challenges and risks

 

Thank you for stories used to encourage and reflect your glory

 

Thank you for passions to pursue

 

Thank you for the Holy Spirit’s heart beat in my chest

 

Thank you for bringing my prayers into the light

 

Thank you for spontaneous and grounded worship

 

Thank you for getting in the way when I step out in the wrong direction

 

Thank you for unearned abundance

 

Thank you for being an ever present and living God

 

Thank you for intimacy and depth

 

Thank you for your presence in nature

 

Thank you for making me a vessel of your sweet whispers

 

Thank you for incomprehensible love

 

Thank you for the pure refreshment found in abiding and resting

 

Thank you for real and raw community

 

Thank you for bearing fruit from faith as small as a mustard seed

 

Thank you for always showing up

 

Thank you for the slight discomfort on earth and hunger for a heavenly home

 

Thank you for new mornings that bring new promises

 

Thank you for walls that come crashing down

 

Thank you for every beautiful brother and 

sister

 

Thank you for turning weakness into strength

 

Thank you for rapid growth

 

Thank you for the intentionality of your plan for each life you love so dearly

 

Thank you for speaking so boldly and clearly even when you are cut off and ignored

 

Thank you for smiles

 

Thank you for laughs

 

Thank you for tears

 

Thank you for the highs and lows

 

Thank you for each purposeful moment 

 

Thank you for the beautiful journey

 

Love,

A tethered heart