A Season of Thankfulness & Exploring Our Calling

 

The month of November has always been a time when our family has found what we’re grateful for and we use this time to express thankfulness.  We are able to create lists of lists of the blessings in our lives.  Even on Thanksgiving Day, every November, we tell one thing we are thankful for.  This is nothing new, and truth be told it isn’t too difficult.

 

This November I want to do something different.  Instead of only looking at our own thankfulness, I want to focus on how God has been speaking to me.  I can’t shake the feeling that God is telling us to rise from our slumber and look around us.  Look at the world that is hurting.  See, perhaps for the first time, the destruction and agony.

 

So many children without parents.  So many more living in such difficult circumstances.  Woman who are beaten and left for dead.  There are people fighting addictions, others sold into slavery, and many people who have no hope.  We can point our finger and tell them all the wrong things they’ve done and the poor choices they’ve made.  Or we can look to the Word of God to see what He has to say about us.

 

I’m asking you, dear reader, this November, to take a few days and reflect.  Reflect on what God has given to you – both in wealth and in gifting.  Maybe even in how he has shaped you throughout your life.

 

Let’s join together and as we count our blessings and express our thankfulness let us find out what God has commanded us to do.  So over this entire month, I’ll be doing something new.  I’m going to update this blog with posts every Monday – Wednesday – and Friday.  Each day will have it’s theme but it will be about exploring what God is calling us to and what God has called other moms to. {Among the topics we will look at are exploring our calling, reasons why we don’t obey, the purpose of our lives, Orphan Sunday, local adoption, international adoption, helping the poor, and practical ways to serve.}

 

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9

 

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