Thanksgiving

It has been awhile since I have blogged but a lot has happened these past few months.  I became a grandmother for the first time October 13th.  What a blessing!  I had a major break through in my personal life on July 20th of this year.  I finally broke down and gave my family to God.  What an amazing night that was.  I am still getting to know me as well.  We have been studying Jonah and Nehemiah about the city of Nineveh.  Everyone believes that Jonah fled out of fear of the Ninevites when he went the other way.  The reality is he did not believe they deserved what he knew God would do for them, forgiveness.  Sure there may have been some hesitation but he knew God was a forgiving God and because of all the horrible things theses people did to God's people Jonah did not feel they deserved forgiveness.  So much so that after he obeyed and went into Nineveh he then stuck around for months to see if the people would continue in there new way of life or would they go back to the old way and then he could watch God bring down His judgement on them.  I realized that I had not been praying for my family because of this very same thing.  I was saying in my heart that they do not deserve God's forgiveness.  But in reality neither do I!  I was judging them and putting myself above them and essentially telling God what to do.  So now I have been learning to pray for them with earnest desire to see forgiveness and repentance and reconciliation.  I am so thankful God is so gracious and forgiving.  I truly don't deserve what He did for me.  So thankful He is not a conditional God.   Tomorrow we will celebrate Thanksgiving with our son, daughter in law and new grandson and we have to so much to be thankful for.  Everyone of us has so much to be thankful for.  I wish we could remember that all year long and not just a few days, weeks or just one day a year.  Sure we all have our rough spots and we loose our focus on the good but why do we reserve our thankfulness for one time of the year?  God is so good! Praying you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and you carry it in your heart all year long.