Thanksgiving II ~

31 May-6 June: This week I've been thankful for another family breakfast with the entire Riggins clan this morning - a meal all 'specially enjoy; thankful for the sunlight bathing the hills outside my window just now; and thankful for these words from Scripture: “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. 'Come now, and let us reason together,' says the Lord, 'Though your sins are like scarlet,they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.'" Isaiah 1:16-19; to have needed no blankets through the night hours - summer will soon be here! Thankful for the delightful company at our family breakfast - and for the knowledgeable assist re a plumbing problem that one of the guests provided as Curt climbed down into the manhole after our meal; and so very thankful for these words from Scripture: "Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know" Jeremiah 33:3; for the fresh, clean scent of rain in the air coming through my window; for another big box - out of season clothing and miscellaneous rarely used items - in an open space in my closet; And thankful for these precious words from Jeremiah 31:3: The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you"; for the sweet greeting I got when the youngest kitty (it's been away for a week or so) came for a cuddle; for the blessing of watching Dandee bounce back from his encounter with a vehicle last week; and for this assurance from the Word: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world, through Him, might be saved" John 3:16,17; for the rest of this past night, and to have wakened to a fresh, new day; for my sister's safe return from a solo trip up north - always glad for a return from travel without dents, bruises, flats, or breakdowns; for this promise, found in 2 Peter 1:4 (AMP): " By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature." - what a privilege is ours!  I am thankful  in anticipation of our family "girls' day" in Lewiston; for the completed (joint) project of packaging my parcel for shipment to Romania; and for this assurance from Scripture: "Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation" Isaiah 12:2.  It's a beautiful Sabbath morning, and I am thankful for another celebration of the Creator's work; thankful, too, for the gorgeous day we enjoyed yesterday as we drove to Lewiston and back - with no dents or flats, God is good! And thankful for this assurance of a forever-continuing celebration of the Creator I find in Isaiah 66:23: "And it shall come to pass that from one New Moon to another,and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord" - what a glorious promise!