Give Thanks

My mom recently gave me a book called One Thousand Gifts written by Ann Voskamp.  Little did I know how much it would challenge my life. It is a challenge to live a whole and full life right were I am now; To realize all the gifts God bestows on us in the daily, mundane, hum-drum of life AND to give thanks.  To give thanks with full hands or empty ones and to name them, one by one. She says "it's a dare to name all the ways that God loves me. The true love dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable." So, i am taking the challenge she puts forth to make a list of 1000 gifts; the spectum is broad: my salvation, my family, to warmth of a spring day, the reminder of family at the sound of my perculator, the smell of fresh cut grass, etc.  It's thanking Him for His goodness. "The gift list is thinking upon His goodness- and this pleases Him most!" Take the challenge!