Thankful, So Thank

 I am thankful for good times when the beauty of life cannot be hidden...it pours out so abundantly you can barely contain it, the cup is so full you can embrace it all so easily with a perfect and honest grace.

 I am thankful for hard times, when the reasons for fire are not apparent at the start but are revealed at last, ...after you have already walked through the fire, ...and the ease of that perfect grace you had been granted seems far far away.


I am thankful for the dance of life, whatever it may bring,
.....thankful for it all, so I thank..... the One who shares His beauty in so many ways, for I would not want to live in a world without it.
We are thankful, so thank. We are 'guided by love, so love."

"may the fragrance of forgiveness 

stay with ya all the day long,

may the taste of tender mercy, 

remain on the tip of your tongue,

you're guided by love, so be guided by love

like the stars shine right behind the clouds

you're guided by love, so be guided by love now,

may the freedom of obedience, 

be what leads ya when you can't keep your stride,

when the experience of driftin 

further in to the desert lasts forever,

know the rain will soon fall from the sky

you're guided by love, so be guided by love

like the stars shine right behind the clouds

you're guided by love, so be guided by love now"

---"Guided By Love", written by Mitch Mcvicker