November #jammed: Gracious. Day 327: Thankful for my view.    Have you forgotten Me, the One who made you and the whole world, who stretched out the skies and made sure the earth’s foundations? Yet you constantly worry about others—how they hate and might harm you. But their anger counts for nothing. Isaiah 51:3 Quiet mornings cuddled up to […]

November #jammed: Gracious. Day 326: Thankful for ice cream. “Listen to me, Jacob,     Israel, whom I have called: I am he; I am the first and I am the last.” Isaiah 48:12 “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” my husband asked my two daughters as the lake water dripped into their eyes. “ICE CREAM FOR DINNER?!?!” they screeched. A […]

November #jammed: Gracious. Day 325: Thankful for thrills.  I am the first.     And to the very last, I am the One. Isaiah 41:4 She walked up to the height measuring stick in full confidence that she had grown tall enough to ride. I glanced up at the giant steel roller coaster and imagined my kid falling out of […]

November #jammed: Gracious. Day 324: Thankful for my parents.  “Honor your father and your mother.” Exodus 20:12 “Guess what?” my dad said over the phone one afternoon… “You’re moving again?” I guessed. Today’s verse has been lodged in a part of my brain since before I can even remember. My Catholic school upbringing made sure that The Ten […]

November #jammed: Gracious. Day 323: Thankful for the 3 Musketeers The Lord your God is with you. Zephaniah 3:17a “I get the window seat first, and then you can have it on the way home,” my youngest daughter informed her older sister. Ready to give up our annual Florida trip on account of my husbands injury, I trudged through […]