It’s been a rough past several months. Between welcoming a new baby and miscarrying and several trips that kept my routines off kilter, I’ve slidden into a pretty severe depression (at least for summer time.) <\/p>\n
After several weeks now of just-about-debilitating despair, I realized (by the grace of God) that what I need is to revive my old practice of remembering God’s grace and reciting His goodness. <\/p>\n
And so, this week’s recitations, recorded daily, because I forget to build an altar of testimony if I don’t gather the stones while I’m traveling. <\/p>\n
Tuesday<\/strong> Wednesday<\/strong> Thursday<\/strong> “If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me, ~Psalm 139:11-12 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Thank you, Lord, that this darkness that seems to cover me is as light to you – and that, as I gaze upon your brightness, I too can see light. <\/p>\n “For with you is the fountain of life; ~Psalm 36:9 (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a rough past several months. Between welcoming a new baby and miscarrying and several trips that kept my routines off kilter, I’ve slidden into a pretty severe depression (at least for summer time.) After several weeks now of just-about-debilitating despair, I realized (by the grace of God) that what I need is to … Read more Thankful Thursday (2019.08.29)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19807"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19818,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807\/revisions\/19818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n… thank you, Lord, that I did not have a headache today like I did over the weekend and into yesterday
\n… thank you, Lord, that the children and I got to all three grocery stores (two for pickup, one to go in) without any meltdowns
\n… thank you, Lord, that I remembered that the trash needed to go out and got it to the curb before the truck came (a delay that is a clear evidence of grace)
\n… thank you, Lord, that despite this deep well of depression, you have given me grace to consistently be in your word this summer
\n… thank you, Lord, that the children napped today
\n… thank you, Lord, for energy to make progress towards meals in the freezer<\/p>\n
\n… thank you, Lord, for reassurance that the (rather big) change we made last week is producing fruit
\n… thank you, Lord, for clean kitchen counters
\n… thank you, Lord, for reminders to press through rather than giving in to paralysis
\n… thank you, Lord, for the ability to take pleasure in Christmas music (even if it’s the wrong season)
\n… thank you, Lord, for little steps in the right direction – one load of laundry out of seven folded and two bathrooms out of three swished and swiped
\n… thank you, Lord, that my sourdough starter isn’t dead (yet) <\/p>\n
\n… thank you, Lord, that I was able to spend the evening browsing and buying good books (this go-round of our Friends of the Library’s semi-annual book sale netted me ~60 books for $10)
\n… thank you, Lord, for my husband starting the dishwasher last night. It was such a blessing to be able to empty clean dishes this morning instead of trying to scrape and wash day-old dishes.
\n… thank you, Lord, for an unexpected cancellation that means I don’t<\/em> have to leave the house today
\n… thank you, Lord, for the wealth of information available on the internet and the fun that it sometimes is to lose myself exploring other nations’ holiday traditions<\/p>\n
\n and the light about me be night,’
\neven the darkness is not dark to you;
\n the night is bright as the day,
\n for darkness is as light with you.” <\/p>\n
\n in your light do we see light.”<\/p>\n