Gratitude Thursday

Thank you Lord for my new gold crown. Thank you for dentists and surgeons. Thank you for technology and indoor plumbing. Thank you for Apple computers, iPads,  iPhones and i watch. Thank you for bright shiny things. Thank you for family and friends. Keep my beautiful sister in law, my brilliant nephews and their loved ones safe and well. Thank you for Gilbert and the other family cockapoos.  Help them enjoy life to the fullest. Thank you for all the doctors and nurses and patients I’ve known over decades. Thank you for the opportunity to be of service. Thank you for sobriety and clear mindedness. Thank you for a clear conscience. Thank you for peace of mind. Thank you for bowel functions and bladder functions and showers.  Thank you especially for the sunshine and fresh sea air. Thank you for the blooming flowers and singing birds. Thank you for heat and running water. Thank you for wilderness. Thank you for cars, motorcycles, trucks and 4x4’s. Thank you for boats. Thank you for rifles and fishing rods and chickens and seeds. Thank you for the breakfast of egg, banana, yogurt, peanut butter and bread. Thank you for utensils. Thank you for starbucks. Thank you for these fingers. Thank you for pretty girls and fashion and malls and business and industry.  Thank you for law and order. Thank you for judges. Thank you for parliament. Thank you for the legislature. Thank you for government. Thank you for guidance. Thank you for education. Thank you for meritocracy. Thank you for health. Thank you for hospitals and medical clinics. Thank you for pharmaceuticals and surgery. Thank you for investigative instruments and lab. Thank you for love making in the morning. Thank you for love making any time of day. Thank you for concerts and the laughter we shared about them needing to be earlier because none of us like staying up late any more. Thank you for bed. Thank you for Sealy Posturpedic.  Thank you for George and Gilbert when they both join me on the bed and interrupt my reading. Thank you for eyesight and books and iPads and Kindle and novelists and text books Thank you for knowledge. Thank you for miracles. Thank you for the mountains and the sea. Thank you for the rivers and the sky. Thank you for all your blessings.  Help me to see the positive and always look for the best. Help me to remain positive even in the dark time.  Thank you for all the good times.

Thank you for my mother and father and brother and aunt. I think of them often especially my mother. Thank you for all the love she shared. Thank you for the wisdom and care of my brother and father. Thank you for all the laughter we shared with Aunt Sally.  Thank you for family. Thank you all the depth and years and all the learning.  Thank you for your love Lord.