A Good Time to be Grateful

This time of the year is a good time to be grateful.

This time of my life is a good time to be grateful.

This time in the history of mankind is a good time to be grateful.

There is so much to be grateful for:

There is the breath that I'm blessed with every moment of every day,

There are the people whom I am privileged to love

and

There are the people whose love I am constantly blessed by.

There is the joy of my family and the companionship of my friends.

There is my wife whose love recognises no bounds

and who is my joy, my lover and my best friend

all rolled into one gorgeous bundle.

There are the countless moments that God fills with so much more than

I can ever say about.

There is the blessing of answered prayer

and the knowledge that many are praying for me and for my ministry.

So much to thank God for as I offer Him myself as a praise offering in my daily worship.

"When is that?" you ask,

and if you listen hard then you will hear me breathe the answer:

"It's every moment that I'm blessed with life."

For without my God and my daily walk with Jesus I am nothing.

He is all to me because I belong to Him.

With Him I am an army,

without Him I am in a wilderness that has no end.

So here tonight, on this blog, I praise Him and say,

"Thank you, Lord. Thank you for all that You are to me,

and for blessing me far more than I could ever deserve.

You are always with me,

even at those moments when I doubt myself.

You are always with me,

even at those moments when I'm so undeserving.

You are always with me,

for You have promised that You will never leave me or forsake me.

So what else can I say but

"Thank You, Lord."