Still Being Thankful

I am back home after a week of travels to see my children and one precious grandchild. On our travels Barb and I took a side journey to see a dear friend I first met in 1966. Geneva is a woman of prayer and faith. She is now 84 and lives in a nursing home in Texas. She has lived a life of prayer and faith and I am very thankful for her.
Scripture tells us that once we have eaten (or partaken of food/goods/blessings) then we are to thank the Lord. It is important that we are thankful for the perceived gift however the true thanking comes after the partaking of the blessing. Such is the life of Geneva for which I am thankful. Her body is weak but her faith continues to be strong. Her remembering capacities are growing less except in one special area - that of remembering her Lord and Savior. She has seen many miracles in her life due to the road of her life which needed miracles. Nothing else would have done the work but the miracles of God. Miracles of healing of her 1st son of a major injury. Miracles of healing for her 3rd son of Brights Disease, a usually fatal disease of the kidneys. The misterious disappearance of goiters and tumors and her husbands hietal hernia. Her intercession for me over the years. On occasion she would write and ask what I was going through? We then determined that God spoke to her and her prayer intercepted that which was determined to undermine my progress in God.
I go on record today in being thankful after the fact. November 25, 2011 has passed into the records of yesterday and today is at hand. Lets continue to give thanks for the blessings received regardless of what they were and how they came. Let your life be maintained by a thankful heart and a joyous voice of thanksgiving for all God has done for and in our lives.
I take special pleasure in remembering Geneva who has sought God for the many. Take time to thank God for someone who has brought blessing into your life as well as what God has done for you.

Being thankful after the fact.

Walter Rose
Pastor