Sweet Memories!!
What a beautiful evening!
Sitting on the front porch this Friday evening. Oil lamp lit, a full moon and a calm and quiet night.
Just got back from celebrating Thanksgiving with some very special friends. Jim and Sandy and their children Lasca, James, Annie, Johnathan and a lot of their relatives. I was honored to be able to celebrate Thanksgiving with them. We have known them for nearly thirty years and they are family.
A lot of memories where brought back. Good memories of watching our kids grow up over the years. Sometimes it was hard to tell whose kids were whose at times.
Jim and Sandy are the type of friends who love you, who will tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear and then they would go on an love you through the storms, rejoice with you in the mountain top expereinces and walk with you through the valleys.
Sometimes we have to make choices of what we want to remember or what we want to dwell on. I have chosen over the Thanksgiving holidays to remember the many blessings that I have in my life.
For family, for friends new and old, for our children and grand-children. For my Lord who has carried me through the storms and battles and who has and is bringing me to a new place in my life, that I am able to draw strength from His word, from His presence, that gives me Hope that helps me to stay focused on Him.
I am thankful for Hill Country Thoughts and for that which the Lord is doing. For the doors that He is opening and the lives that are being touched and for those who are touching my life with their e-mails, their comments, their words of encouragement and especially their prayers.
I am thankful for a son, Joshua, who kept on keeping on and pushing me and encouraging me to write, to step out, to have faith and to believe. For that son, I am very thankful.
I am thankful for my daughters Gloria and Elise, who also have encouraged me, been there for me, who I know have lifted me to the Lord many times. Thank you kids!!
Thank you my family, my new friends who visit Hill Country Thoughts. Thank you for the many new memories that you are giving me!
Till later,
Paul