A Life Full of Reasons...

Wiggle each finger

Count all your toes

Be sure to remember

Eyes, ears, mouth and nose

A tongue for talking

And tasting too,

A back that won’t break

When you tie your shoes

Tickly tummy,

Bendy elbows and knees

Then don’t forget

To thank God for these

Consider the lilies

How perfect each cup

Feel the breeze teasing

Your face tilted up

Marvel at oceans

Cupped softly aloft

In heaven’s blue eons

Where galaxies waft

Touch, taste, treasure

And don’t forget

To thank God always

For all of it

Laughter; what music

And sorrow, what proof

Of having been gifted

With life’s best; true love

Oh my, awesome tally

Oh my, the heart sings

As we count the blessings

Of everyday things

Turn this way, then that

Tell me, what do you see?

Is it a life full of reasons

To live thankfully?

© Janet Martin

This past year in my Sunday School Class we did an 'A Thousand Gifts' challenge,

In no time at all a class of less than ten had over two thousand named 'gifts'. 

Can we count each finger ? they asked

There is nothing too small to be counted, we all agreed...

Today Ann reminds us, 'what's hard brings us together' so even then

there it is;  reasons to be grateful!

 We only enter into the full life -- into sozo --- if our faith gives thanks.
Ann Voskamp