Keep Looking Up

"Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined to keep gaze fixed on GOD?

To stay in love?"

                                                                                                    (one thousand gifts, pg. 147)

Ann Voskamp's poignant question convicts.

Keeping the gaze on heaven does, indeed, require work. Daily work. Effort. Discipline.

It seems that our default button is to listen to the world's (Satan's) clamoring; demanding our attention NOW

It must be NOW

It must be THIS

It must be THAT

It must be me

But all the while GOD is close. He is patiently smiling

Waiting

Waiting to bless me

If I'll just look UP

The clamor will become silent to my ear

PRAISE will arise

THANKS will be offered

TRUST

driving away stress and worry

LOVE

overwhelming.

So here I am at my NEW BLOG site!

 I hope those who could not get into the old site will have more success entering this one!

Welcome!

After reading Ann Voskamp's one thousand gifts I wanted to keep the idea of being actively thankful  ever before me, and so . . .  a year of blogging about GRATITUDE!

I really don't have a plan or a direction for this, but one thing I KNOW for sure . . .

I WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR!

Don't worry,this won't be an endless list of things I'm thankful for (that list is ongoing in a notebook!)

Keeping gratitude in the forefront of my thoughts changes my day, my attitude . . . me.

I hope you'll join in and share your thoughts on gratitude. 

Thank you!

"giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ"   

                                                                                                                      ~Ephesians 5:20