Count Your Blessings

I woke up this morning to a lot of anxiety. Fear concerning the present and the future. I'm quick to forget who's in control. I'm reading "Women of the Bible" by Ann Spangler and Jean Syswerda. Here is their prayer today that I needed...

"Father, how easy it is to let anxiety snuff out my gratitude. Help me to linger thankfully in your presence rather than simply rushing on to my next desperate request. Use my weakness and need as a showcase for your strength."

I have been blessed immeasurably, but here are a few modern day miracles, that when I look back on them, I can't help but be in awe of God's presence in my life.

• Brought me out of a 2 year relationship, with the wrong person, and brought a Godly, selfless, honoring man into my life to love me and take care of me.



• Provided a job, after I foolishly & excitedly got an apartment right out of college without any known income.



• When discussing seminary options for our future, God placed on my heart a location that we had not even discussed. I prayed about it, not knowing for certain where the "idea" had come from, without mentioning it to Bryce. God showed me a miracle in placing the "idea" on Bryce's heart, when he mentioned it to me a few weeks later. Then confirming with us through an amazing visit to DTS.



• Led us to an unknown, to us, ministry in apartments on a weekend trip to Dallas to find a place to live. Confirming His direction in our lives by getting us out of a lease, we were "mistakenly" never asked to sign, at an apartment we found, not involved in this ministry.



• Provided a job that supported us, as well as kept an ideal schedule, allowing me to do the apartment ministry.



• Healed me from a long battle with postpartum depression and when blessed with another child, guarded my body and mind, with very minor, if any symptoms.



• Provided Bryce a school schedule that allowed him to stay at home with our son almost full time and for those few times his schedule did not allow, blessed our son with the care of the one family member in the Dallas area (that just happened to live close to my work and lived there during the same time we were there, they are now in Kansas as well).



• Provided Bryce with a job that had not even been advertised after seminary, close to family, and that allowed me to stay at home to raise our children.



• Has forgiven me.

Thank you Lord for your provision, direction and protection. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for the miracles in my life to remind me I have nothing to fear.