Monday 8 December 2014

What are you most grateful for???


So the preacher asked "what are you most grateful for?"
As rhetorical as it sounded, I couldn't help but grab my notepad to write...:





I am most grateful that I can say I am grateful
For all you've done I say I am grateful
That I saw grace this morning walking Jackie with a lovely smile on her face
For the sniveling baby beside the wrecked green cab,
That she could weep for her ma lifeless few meters away
That could have been mine, but she reads this as i write
For this I am grateful.




For all the sad stories with happy endings
For the troubled waters you said peace be still
For the hands that fought in anger yet stretched out in embrace, I am grateful.
For the perfect starts, through the dreadful process to the proud glories
For the baby showers, birthdays, and wedding bells
And memories that capture all of life's breathtaking moments
For all these I am grateful.


My head became muddled with so many words to say for all the blessings you gave
Sited beside me was spry old man Dickson
His children, Grandchildren and great-grandchild David sleeping peacefully in his arms.
I can't but say I am grateful for family and the bliss mine has brought to spice up my life.




Trying to count my blessings seemed impossible
And from all these thoughts that filled my head I still couldn't say what I'm most grateful for.
Then a still pause held my heart
All there was to think were the thanksgiving regular lines
As much as I tried to shove it aside again, just to write something different for once,
they kept coming to mind
I realised these "line" are what sustains me,
Promises you never fail to live up to.

Your tolerant mercy, looking past my flaws
Grace so amazing always giving me a new start
Your love for me, I still consider the deepest mystery
For all these and many more I am grateful

Then the choir, chanting this sonorous chorus
With the atmosphere in electrifying worship
All rose lifting up hands in adoration, bowing down in awe as they echoed the sound:

Oh oh oh oh oh, I'm grateful
Oh oh oh oh oh, I'm grateful...


Then I whispered these words:

"Who am I that You are mindful of,
Who am I that you care to make me smile
Like the dust in the field I could be swept off by the gusty wind
Like the dew under the morning sun, I will varnish in time
And Like the fading petals, blown away in the wind on spring
You care so much not because of who I am,
But because of Who You are...
You are Good! and Your mercy is forever, Hallelujah!"

4 comments:

  1. A lot of things that I'm grateful for,Words fail me to express my gratitude....Everything na u God!!!

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  2. Nice write up!!! I'm so grateful to God, I am grateful for a wonderful family, friends, health, trails, salvation, God's love, grace, favour, protection, for choosing me... the list is endless but I'm forever grateful. Thank You Lord!!!

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  3. grateful for life

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