Thankful Friday

1. my valentine (and little valentines) - spoiled me rotten with gerber daises (my favorite), a movie, pie
2. my little explorer (Sage pretty much totally walking)
3. pearl earrings
4. beautiful weather in the middle of Feb.
5. zoo pass (thank you grandma joyce and papa don)
6. dinner with friends (thanks kinzenbaws)
7. simple nights in
8. sugar cookies
9. crafts with my kids
10. funny phrases ellsyn says
11. new books - the kiddos valentine from us
12. mail - the kids have enjoyed getting cards and treats lately
13. our driveway and not so busy street - makes getting the mail and playing outside so much fun
14. vaccines & stickers
15. the pure entertainment we provide, pretty much everywhere we go
16. God's stirrings
17. sleep filled nights, sager has been sleeping all night pretty every night (fingers crossed tonite)
18. adoption (read my friend tracy's blog if you want an AMAZING story)


Ponder on this passage...it is from my bible study this past tuesday. So much truth. Amazing stuff.

2 Corinthians 2: 7-18

⁷ But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. ⁸ We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed,but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.¹⁰ We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. ¹¹ For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. ¹² So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

¹³ It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.”^[b] Since we have that same spirit of^[c]faith, we also believe and therefore speak, ¹⁴ because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself. ¹⁵ All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

¹⁶ Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. ¹⁸ So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.