Ahhhhh....LIFE!!!

The best things in life are the nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you." (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Thanks God for breath.....it is the fuel of my physical life. I am blessed to live in a country with clean and fresh air....ask our friends D and E about the lack of that in Vietnam and you'll soon appreciate what we have. I can breathe freely on my own and my body does all it should to turn that oxygen into what I need.

Thanks God for hope and delight....they are the light in my eyes. Love shines there too. And may what lights my eyes, bring a gleam of gratitude to my heart. And a ray of hope to others.

Thanks God for flowers.....for your magnificent creation made just for us. Thank-you for the full moon and for the light refreshing rain. Thank-you for the passionfruit growing on the vine and the frangipani's fragrance. Thanks for my darling little boy's blue eyes. And for the rolling green waves at the beach. Thanks for seahorses and fluffy chickens. And for snowy peaked mountains and crystal clear streams bubbling over smooth stones. Thanks for cascading waterfalls and wispy clouds. I could go on and on and on...but you get the idea I'm sure.

Thanks God for duties at my hand....I have work to do and the ability to do it. Thanks for the work I have to do at home to look after my husband and my son. To care for our home. Thank-you for the opportunity to minister in a school. To spend time with vibrant teenagers and encouraging colleagues and get paid for it! Thanks for a job that offers variety and challenge and allows me to be creative and have fun. And thank-you for the joy of working so closely with people and having opportunity to make a difference in their lives, every day.

Thanks God for walking with me.....for guiding, directing, purposing and planning my path. Thanks for your Word and the advice it offers in living life well. Thank-you for family and friends to walk the path with. Thanks for the Holy Spirit's joy, comfort, strength and counsel to make the walk do-able and more than that, exciting! And thank-you for caring about me so much that you would bother with all of this.

Will you take a moment RIGHT NOW to pause and to say 'thanks' to God? Thank Him for the 'best things in life' and then....comment below, telling me 3 of your 'bests.' Thanks and God bless you!