Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 696
August 13, 2024///
If you are like me, when we look around us, we see so much need and so much turmoil and so many issues in America and our world.
It seems that common sense has fled, and things are happening that our parents and grandparents would never have believed.
We sometimes get discouraged when we look at all the evil and problems around us, but this morning I want to remind you of the good we experience and the good that is around us.
Even though good and evil are in a fierce battle in the United States we still have the freedom to worship as we please or not worship at all if we please.
We can read or have as many Bibles with us and in our homes as we want in this great United States of America!
We in America are free to have as many children as we want where parts of the world cannot do that.
We have the freedoms to work and travel and live our life apart from the fear of guns in our face and punishments we do not understand.
Even though our government does not always do right or what we want, we still have voting rights and can make our voices known.
Much of the world are not as Blessed as we are in the U.S.A. and as erroneous as it may seem to some we are thought of as a nation of freedoms for all.
On a personal level, if you are reading this you have a computer or phone or both and access to internet!
I would think most of you reading this did not sleep on the street last night or freeze or burn up (depending on where you are), because your electricity was out!
Do you have clothes to put on this morning and something to eat? If so, you are more blessed than much of the world, even many inside the United States!
Water to drink is a Blessing that many do not experience in our world!
If we can walk, move, drive, or work we are more Blessed than many people!
Most of us have family and friends who love us and will be there when we need them.
Can you read? You are Blessed! Can you write? You are Blessed!
Children, Grandchildren, Great-Grandchildren: these are all wonderful Blessings in our lives!
May I encourage you today to begin to be thankful for your Blessings!
If you are reading this, I would venture to say you at least believe there is a God who created all things.
May I tell you that the creator God of the universe is where all Blessings come from! He will pour out Blessing after Blessing on us, as we acknowledge our Blessings!
Look at James 1:17 in two translations of the Bible!
James 1:17 (KJV)
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
James 1:17 (TPT)
17 Every gift God freely gives us is good and perfect, streaming down from the Father of lights, who shines from the heavens with no hidden shadow or darkness and is never subject to change.
I understand that God’s ways are so much different than our ways and His Love for us is so much deeper, but I tend to think He is like most earthly parents who desire to give their children more and more when those children express appreciation for what they are given!
Are we like selfish children who desire their way and want what they want even though it is not the best for them? Have you ever seen a child who received so much but was never thankful for it? Are we like ungrateful children when it comes to God’s blessings?
Are we breathing, we should praise God. We must realize that it is God that gives us breath and keep our heart beating and our body functioning.
No matter how tough things are for you right now, just began to praise God for what you do have beginning with the breath you breath. You will find an attitude change and a shift in your approach for the day!
Discouraged? Remember the Bible says, “Where evil abounds, grace does much more abound”! Grace is unmerited favor and blessings. May we walk the path of an attitude of gratitude!
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Father, creator God of the universe, I come to you in the name of Jesus! I just want to thank you for your blessings on myself and each person who reads this. May we understand that our very breath is from you and just as a good parent you desire to Bless us! May we open our hearts and receive from you! Amen!
Blessing after Blessing!
Love, MeMaw
THOUGHTS FROM SKYDIVING MEMAW 