Sunday, October 8, 2023

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
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...








2 comments:

  1. Oh my, there's so much here to rejoice and be glad in! Your desserts looks so yummy. Happy Thanksgiving, Janet! What a lovely photo of you two - what a great arch! Wishing you a beautiful week ahead. xo

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    1. Happy thanksgiving, Brenda! BTW, the 'from our house to yours' wishes are the same but the house where the photo was taken isn't our house. LOL! I just realized it could be misleading...to clarify, the house was the venue here my nephew's wedding took place on Friday! and yes, the arbor was beautiful!!

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