Forever Thankful...

It is Thanksgiving Weekend in Canada!

Happy Thanksgiving 

Wherever in the world you are!

Because every day ought to be a 'give thanks' day!

With less people living at home I have (reluctantly)

scaled back the traditional Thanksgiving Weekend bake-blitz!

Like this and this and this!💖😋

But!!! not totally😅!

One of our dinner-guests today does not eat dessert/sweets.

I am going to do my best to make him wish he did!!

All in good grace and fun!

Col.3:15

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts,

 since as members of one body you were called to peace. 

And be thankful. 

Isa.25:1

O LORD, You are my God. 

I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, 

For You have done wonderful things; 

Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

For seasons as they bloom then lie

Like fallen leaves beneath blue sky,,,

For seasons as they bloom then lie

Like fallen leaves beneath blue sky

For overflowing flower-smiles

And autumn’s gold and auburn isles

For little girl with little kitten

For mother-hearts so dearly smitten

By beauty’s wonders, duty-wild

That seem to haste to woo the child

From innocence, to dreams to cares

Beneath an umbrella of prayers

For privilege to bear the smart

Of pangs love’s fond farewells impart

For harvest’s air of urgency

Mingling with awed humility

For melodies that slip and sweep

In leaf-shaped notes that none can keep

For health and strength, though should both fail

For hope beyond this troubled vale

If we repent, trust and obey

He who will guide us through each day

For toil’s common ingredients

And spoil that authors reverence

To God, for earth’s fulness thereof

To we, below, from He above

As planted furrow overflows

With bounty His goodness bestows

Through every good and perfect gift

We pluck and thresh, chop, stir or sift

To awe us as we recognize

What mercy daily bread supplies

For comfy chairs and cozy nooks

For cups of tea and love of books

For hands to hold through life’s distress

To fine-tune fervent thankfulness

With joy, much sweeter than before

The test of trouble that we bore

For faith, established in God’s word

For His promises undeterred

May we never forget to raise

A hymn of holy, humble praise

For comfort to rush mortal frame

With truth no scorner’s tongue can maim

For Zion’s precious Cornerstone

That will never be overthrown

Where, though bold foes may boast and lure

Justice and righteousness endure

Through the salvation of the Lord

Therefore we rejoice in His Word

Forevermore; worship resounds

With gladness that transcends all bounds

For reason to review God’s grace

Until nothing is commonplace

Until the best we have to bring

Is love’s breath-by-breath offering

Of adoration and delight

Until desire’s appetite

Hungers and thirsts for things above

(Not cursed with lucre-kindled love)

Until that great and glorious day

When praise will never lose its way

© Janet Martin

From our House to Yours

Happy Thanksgiving...