Lord, we come to thank You for blessings
filled with thankfulness at Your grace
hopeful so many in agony, pain, suffering with cancer and other ills
may know peace from your calming spirit.
Especially now Lord, we look to you for help with all whom
we know through these carefully placed words
threaded through networks to create fabric of human connection
that each may be filled to overfilling with healing and peace.
You know each of us by name
You carry us when we cannot but slump into
a dark place where we wonder what the morning will bring
may it bring for each even a glimpse of Your glory.

All of us gathered here...

Yep, I arose early, made stuffing, prepared and stuffed the bird, giblets on the stovetop, oven roasting away with the turkey, soon aromas fondly reminiscent of days long gone by will begin to fill the house, awakening memories of Grandma cackling with laughter as her blessed family was gathered around her, Grandpa telling the same old stories over and over again with the same gusto with which I had first heard them..... only now it is our generation making memories for our younguns. We invite Floyd a kinda
"slow" fella from our church to our table. He lives alone in "the projects" a product of emotional pain from a checkered family past. Our daughter wonders "why" bring him here, but the lesson is in the experience and the giving, showing friend Floyd he is loved..... takes time for some of our youth to catch on. Mom-in-law and Bro-in-law are here, tremendous blessings in our lives. My Mom and Dad no longer travel due to the Alzheimers....... but they will have folks gathered at their table, people Dad still seems to recognize.

We gather together to thank the Lord for our blessings all, even those which bring me to this special place in which to share. Interesting that, my wife stood at the mic during our Thanksgiving Eve service and thanked God for the growth she has seen in me over the time I have shared on here. This place is blessed and confers blessings on all who enter whether they realize it or not. As Rae has SO OFTEN WRITTEN, we have developed an extended family here, one for which I thank God.

Blessings to all this day, mindful of He from whom all blessings come,
Mark56

Happy Thanksgiving

his will be done

amen!

Love to all!!!!!!!

Wishing all a Happy Thanksgiving.


Thanksgiving by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For each new morning with it's light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything thy goodness sends."

Sandy

amen!

good night!

sleep tight!

good day all

woke up crying my dog would have been one with my body if he could have it his way

i just love him so much

i have no doubt of his love for me

as my beautiful Lord loves us all

i'm scared that the cancer has been around for a while
and that my bones were and are a sign as my cyst
in my neck something i was born with and also a major factor

it disturbs me something awful no one listening
i have to shake it

blessings for the day:

i am blessed yet another day

help me not to be angry

help me let it go

and let you in

this is all connected

no one paying attention

bless me the release of my anger

it too is cancerous

bless us all the desire of your touch

i am still open to trust

trust

i have demons that i need to rid myself from

the only way is by HONESTLY FORGIVING THOSE IN MY LIFE
WHO I SHOULD HAVE TRUSTED, MY MOTHER AND FATHER

my father committed suicide in 1980 on the day my son was born 3 years later

they stripped me of my natural process going thru phases a girl goes thru naturally

for me the unthinkable

so fast forward 50 years

i'm here still crying over my loss of myself so young

and in A.A. over 20 years i really believed i resolved it

and it's here in my face again

i should be blessed to have come so far

needs it to be wholeheartedly

i'm blessed i can share

God my i thank you the time i have with my family
that means everything to me

may they feel my love for them

it needs to be felt

i have been blessed and feel the love of persons i haven't met in my life but it is there

my you all feel my love of humanity

in God i trust

Eva, so interesting you wrote of the very things we covered in our celebration of Thanksgiving on Wednesday evening at church. We recognize our blessings, in trust of our Faith in the Lord we are renewed, in forgiveness we are brought full circle with the reality the very substance of our Faith is in forgiveness, for without God's sacrifice that we may be forgiven, we would be wandering in a world of anger, envy, taking advantage of each other.

I spoke of forgiveness, how God set the example, and I have recognized the path to follow purging my soul of hurt and anger because of the sweet peace of forgiveness..... forgiving those who caused my injuries, of forgiving the doctors who would not treat me originally because I am a lawyer, of recognizing the very need to forgive myself for anger I felt in looking at God, who did not cause any of this, and wondering "how come?" Forgiveness is restorative. Recognition of blessings is recharging of the spirit. Love shared with others is precisely what Christ asked we do in our lives throughout the world.

All of this will pass, and God's will be done in your body and deep within your spirit, so surviving that which you will endure may become the foundation of your leap foreward into the world sharing the grace with which you are blessed.

Thank you for blessing us with your outpouring of hurt, of experience, of recognizing God's love,
I feel blessed, how are you?
Mark56

Keep me reminded that when i need you most you never left me just slap me around a little and keep me close to you for i need you most in my life more than ever before, i'll watch my sister and my children. It is a way i want to live.




Keep me in your spirit
you are the almighty
my support system is needed
do not want to give up

One of my fave scriptures that I repeat to myself often.
Dear DEAR Eva....
We've got some incredible Prayer Warriors here....
and that includes YOU

Please don't give up. Don't even let that thought cross your mind.
Stand on God's Word
Always....
Unforgiveness Blocks the Flow of God's Blessings....
It's good that you confess your anger and the people you have a hard time
Forgiving....
This way we can all stand in Agreement and Pray
For the FORGIVENESS to FLOW....
Do not let a Bitter Root take hold....
You must let it go.
I myself have had a hard time doing this ....
I MUST let it go
Let Go and Let GOD
Let Go and Let GOD
Let Go and Let GOD....

The Blessings will Flow dear Eva.
It's NOT too late.
The cancer does NOT have a Stronghold....
Let the cancer leave you....
God is our Healer...
And medical technology has advanced so much...
Cancer is no longer a death sentence
You must believe this.

You WILL be FREE of this my Friend
You will.

Rae

Came here today feeling depressed, but your prayers help me focus on Gods plan for what we go through. His reason is far more wonderful than I can comprehend. Thankful His mercy is new and overflowing everyday. Thank you all!!