With A Grateful Heart!!
It is with a grateful heart that I give thanks to the Lord for all that He is doing in my life!
I am thankful to the Lord, that He has allowed me to go through the things of life. Because of them I am becoming what He has called me to be and that I am where He wants me at this point and time in my life.
That I am in a place that He has become my all in all, my place of refuge, my place of hope, my shelter, my covering, my dwelling place. He is the source of my strength, my God and my Saviour!
What better place could one be but in the hands of God? In a place where in serving Him, we are made free, that we are being set free from the chains of the past, from the wounds of life, from the deep rooted things, that He and only He can remove. Those things that are so deep, that only He can reach, with His nail scared hands and remove and apply the balm of healing by His touch.
I am grateful that my Father loves me so much, that He gave His son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to redeem me, to redeem us and to bring us home, to a place of knowing Him.
I am grateful for my new friends, my brothers and sisters in the Lord, for those who blog by to say howdy, that the Lord has given us this tool called the Internet to encourage, exhort, lift up and build one another in the faith, to link us together.
I am grateful for the new friends who drop by Hill Country Thoughts and go away encouraged, that those who don’t know Him, will want to know more about the hope within, how in spite of all the battles and things that I am going through, I am at peace, I am learning to be one with the Lord, sharing the hope within.
When I could have chosen to flee, to run, to go in the opposite direction, my Heavenly Father, drew me towards Him. He gave me new life in Christ, new hope and a new beginning and now He is fulfilling the one thing that I truly desire and that is that I might be a pen in His hands to express His heart. That I can look up even this day and see in my heart, the smile of my Father.
Oh, I have a ways to go and many more years and miles to travel yet, but my Father is walking with me each and every step of the way on this path called life. That He is guiding me in new ways, opening my heart that I might see with His eyes, to have His love and compassion for others. That I am beginning to become the father, the grand-father, the friend to others that I was meant to be and hopefully to become the husband that I was meant to be if that is what is in my Fathers plan for me.
I am grateful for all who visit Hill Country Thoughts. May you be encouraged as you walk this path called life. May you see the hope within, that we indeed can live in the real world, live a real life and follow a risen Lord and Saviour.
That we can be real, honest. That we can share together, laugh together, cry together and most importantly hope together. That we can strengthen one another. That we become quick to listen, to pray, to care and slow to speak. That we do not be so quick to judge one another but that with the love of our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, that we build them up and not tear them down.
That when we don’t understand what others are going through, that we lift them to our Father and allow Him to do what He does well and that is to love them, woo them and draw them back to His wide open arms and embrace them with Himself and says “Welcome my sons and my daughters, I have been waiting a long time to hold you.”
Till later,
Paul