On My Way To Heaven

It’s the coldest winter for my friend. She is enduring the frost on her soul. Nothing warms her spirit. It is all gray. Tears run and she doesn’t even notice them. But still she cries out… cries from a corner, the deepest corner of her soul, and I hear her say, “I know the Lord is good. He is faithful. I thank him because on his mercy He did not allow a greater storm.”

I pray to God and I ask him to give me grateful heart in the midst of the most terrible winters of life. In the valley of shadow of death. When nothing seems to be pretty. When doubts arise and it seems that the whole world is falling down. When sorrow and grief are so present that you can almost touch them.

A grateful heart, O Lord, give me a grateful heart.

157. Thank you for giving us hope, and grace to endure.

To see my whole gratitude list click here. (It is under Pages,on the right side bar, “Endless Gifts…On Monday”)

Reading my Bible, and studying Psalm 103, I found how David, raises his voice to let everyone know about the mercies and the goodness of God toward his own people.

It is all about remembering all of his benefits. It has been five weeks now since I started to keep a gratitude journal; I can see now how it has helped me (and my family, because we write a family gratitude journal together) not to forget all his benefits. It is great to look back and again be able to say: “Thank you, Father”

Calvin said, ” It is our own ingratitude which hinders us from praising God, not his lack of goodness toward us. Although he blesses us that we may praise him, our shameful listlesness buries in our hearts his innumerable benefits. The memory of them should cause us to praise”

And verse 13 of this Psalm mentions the starting point of  our gratitude list. “He forgives all my iniquity“

And again, Calvin, says it clearly :

” …Reconciliation is the fountain from which all benefits flow”

He forgives me…every day…He forgives me! Thank you, O Lord.

113. Thank you for forgiving all my iniquities.

Thank you for dying for me.

Bless the Lord,O my soul. Sing of  His mercies, of  His steadfast love forever.

Let my song be heard, daily on my way to heaven.

To see my whole list, click on Endless Gifts…on Monday, under Pages, or click on the nail’s picture.

A beautiful day is always a day full of gratitude. Mondays are beautiful because some of us come and raise our voices to give thanks to the Only Worthy  to receive all glory and honor and praise.

Psalm 77:11-15

^11″I will remember the deeds of the LORD;
yes, I will remember your wonders of old.
¹²I will ponder all your work,
and meditate on your mighty deeds.
¹³Your way, O God, is holy.
What god is great like our God?
¹⁴You are the God who works wonders;
you have made known your might among the peoples.

107. Thank you for our family’s gratitude journal.

To see my whole list, click on Endless Gifts…on Monday under Pages, on the right side bar.