FALL GRATITUDE

Every day I take the back roads to work.  I only have to drive 13 miles, but there is always something to catch my eye.  About a week ago I decided to start capturing the beauty I saw with my camera.  I pray these pictures capture at least some of what God showed me.  But first I have say I am grateful and so thankful for:

11.  Jesus, that He was willing to die so I could be saved in every area of my life, not just from hell, but every area, when I believe and reach out and receive the gift of salvation from His beautiful hands.

12.  For the beauty of a foggy morning!

This captured my eye as I was driving to work the taller tree stood out and seemed to tower over the smaller.  To me it was beautiful with the fog in the background.

13:  For the beauty of bales of hay waiting in the field to be used for the winter.

The above reminds me of a caterpillar.  I took both of these on the same day as the trees.

Two rows of round bales with the sun just coming up.

14:  For a beautiful sunrise!  Ignore the antenna and car top had to make a quick stop and take fast so I could get to work!  

15:  For this small surprise right outside my office window.  Just had to go out and take a picture!

The day was overcast when I took this.  Usually the flowers are pointing toward the east and the sun but this day no sun was out.  Still I thought it was interesting that they grew right behind a window some one had leaned up against a shed.

Thank you Jesus for the beauty you have placed all around us.  Help us to STOP and SEE what you the Creator has given to us Your creation.

Love Brenda

GRATITUE MONDAY

Every Monday I am giving praise and thanks to God for all his goodness to me!

6.  For the awesome women at Rivers of Life International church who pray for each other and who have helped me in my times of weakness. This is my best friend Liz. A real prayer warrior and one who I can always count on to pray with me and for me. 



7.  For my wonderful Pastor's whose hearts desire what God wants above all else.

 
8.  A grandson whose heart delights in God even at the age of 11. Chase has a tender heart and cries when the anointing of God is on him.
9.  For a grand daughter whose quiet beauty and smile is a delight to see.  Wish she were closer to her Mamoo and not hundreds of miles away in Tampa FL. :>(

10. For my home God gave me!  Only picture I have is one during the snow storm in Jan.

Gratitude Community

Since September was the start of the Jewish New Year I have been saying "This is the greatest year of my life", so I intend to start making it so by giving God thanks!  I'm going to start being part of the Gratitude Community on my birthday which is today October 11, 2010.

1.  For the beauty of the fog in the trees on my way to work today
2.  For being blessed with so many friends leaving me happy b'day messages on my Facebook wall
3.  For the new job!  God placed me in the best place!  A job doing exactly what I enjoy!
4.  For my Mama who just turned 84 this past Saturday.  She is such a blessing to me.
5.  For my daughters.  I thank God he gave me such wonderful girls.  I'm so proud of them.

This is my start.  Every Monday I want to add more as I allow God to show me things from the smallest to the biggest to be grateful for.

God is good so to me!!

Awesome Coffee Table

Today I happened to stop by a garage sale close to my house and I found this awesome oak coffee table.

This will become a bench at the end of my full size bed in the guest room.  It has some glass stains on the top but I intend to sand this down and paint it a beautiful navy blue.  Ok, you say why paint this and not just stain it.  I could just stain but that will not fit into my bedroom theme.  My American room needs to be consistent with the theme of red, white and blue.  If I ever get a bigger house I will probably use it else where and redo it and give it an oak stain, but till then it will be painted navy.

Kim, here's my vanity after I got it setup in my room.  I'm going to paint it black and buy some square wooden knobs and paint them one of the colors in my bedspread just to give it some pop!!.

See this is much better than the small school desk I was using.  I thank God I had at least that to use, but I am really excited to do something with this.  I had the next several months all planned out on what to do, but I think I'll just take it slow and easy and  not try to feel the rush or pressure to do so much in such a short time.  First and foremost is to get the American room completed!!  Then I'll start on my room.

Just ignore my image in the mirror.  I didn't even think about that when I was taking this picture.