Rebekah's Insights

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I reflected on the fact that although I am trying to form some new habits, I tried to focus my resolutions on enjoying the everyday wonders already all around me. This reminded me of something I noticed on several blogs last year, which was mention of a Gratitude Community--a group of people who were periodically taking the time to make a list, little by little of 1000 gifts for which they are thankful. Not being all up on the blogging how-tos, I do not yet know how to link to the originating site, etc., but I thought this blog would be a great place for me to keep track of such a list--rather than using several sheets of paper which I will undoubtedly lose. 1000 gifts! Wow! 1000 seems like a lot, but I have a feeling if I start to list them, it will be staggering to observe just how many gifts I have been given and it seems a great way to focus on what the LORD has given, rather than what He has not. :) So here goes...

1000 Gifts List 2009:

1.) little voices to greet me each morning
2.) sun glowing pink on the countryside as dawn breaks over a new day
3.) new mercies for each new day
4.) a husband who is my very best friend and who understands me in ways I never thought someone could
5.) children who are a delight to teach and who teach so much in the process
6.) the sense of hearing
7.) the sense of sight
8.) the sense of touch
9.) the sense of smell
10.) the sense of taste
11.) LOVE--real love, that gave Himself for me
12.) the sense of wonder that is delightfully contagious around a young child