One Thousand Gifts in 2012
March Joy Dare–capturing these gifts and joining Ann Voskamp at A Holy Experience.
“Joy is always a function of gratitude — and gratitude is always a function of perspective. If we are going to change our lives, what we’re going to have to change is the way we see.”
March 1 — 3 gifts at 3pm
Watching the chickens run out of their pen for free-range eating
The quiet of nap time
Gathering fresh laid eggs
March 2 — 3 gifts green
I have started two knitting projects of the same pattern
both in green different size yarn
but oh how different
New Spring green growth
March 3 — 3 gifts wore
A hair net to keep the bun in place
Tights, I love tights.
My shawls, knit, ripped, re knit by me, until I got it right.
March 4 –3 gifts HARD to give thanks for
Leaving our home
The illness of a daughter-in-law
The learning in this season of my life
March 5 — 3 gifts found
Primroses pushing up out of the barren looking soil
Knitting needles hiding in yarn dens being organized
A place for a dresser returned
March 6 — gift bent, gift broken, gift beautiful
Our deck furniture is wrought iron –bent
My idea for my future is broken
God’ perfect plan for me is beautiful,
Psalm 18:30 As for God, his way is perfect:
March 7 –3 gifts in the kitchen
New pans from Brother Bob
Just enough storage space
A window over the sink
March 8 — 3 gifts loud
This littlie is very loud
the Farmer’s tractor (sometimes the loud is a bit too much)
The singing at family night
March 9 — 3 gifts carved
A pair of knitting needles made from the walnut trees grown
at the farm where I purchased them
White washed wooden candlesticks
A bear from my Mom and Brother
March 10 3 gifts in Christ
Every need supplied
Job 23:10 But He knoweth the way that I take:
2Corinthians 1:3 -4 Blessed be God, . . . the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation,
Gifts 296 — 326
Thoughts of Grace 