Simple Blessings

So often in life we look for the big miracles, the ginormous answers to prayer, the huge mountain moving experiences.

Yet, while those happen, they are not the everyday.

If we wait for that to be thankful, to say that the Lord has heard our prayer and answered lovingly, we miss so much.

I was thinking about this while I have been sick - a strange time to be thankful when I have a whopper of a sinus cold that will not go away and sinus pressure that is making me sit and concentrate very hard on keeping my head from exploding.

Yet I see the Lord's care for me:

• my mother in law arrived just as I was getting really sick and has been taking care of everything.
• Miss Pear is happy to play with her grandma and has given me lots of hugs and drawn pictures to make me feel better.
• Baby gets time out of her harness, which is a tremendous delight
• Some friends were praying for us, and were given the strongest impression of how my God loves us, how much He appreciates our desire to know what He wants, how much our marriage honors Him, and how sweet our daughters are in His eyes.
• Strength to care for Baby during the night when I could barely make it to bed time.
• Series of rain showers coming through, which always makes me smile as I miss "weather" being in Southern California.
• Friends just checking in.
• A husband who loves me and jokingly orders me to bed to rest "or else!" (I wonder what the or else is??? knowing him probably tickles.)
• A great stash of my favorite orange tea.
• A healthy family who is not getting this bug that I did.
• My husband having a good, secure job, and even though he has to be away on business next week, we are not on our own, we have help.
  

And that is just a short list.

There is something to be said for counting our blessings.