Above me and below me
Hovers the beautiful.
I am surrounded by it.
I am immersed in it.
~Native American Saying
I thank God for the ways of Creation–
For eyes to see Creation’s beauty,
For ears to hear Creation’s sounds,
For a tongue to taste Creation’s savory delights,
For a nose to smell Creation’s sweet aromas,
For arms to embrace others with a loving touch,
For a heart to understand the ways of the Lord,
For words to praise the triune God, Maker of heaven and earth.
~Edited and adapted from a Native American prayer
I will praise God’s name in song and glorify Him with thanksgiving. ~Psalm 69:30 ✝
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What the rabbi said! 🙂
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Absolutely! 🙂
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Very thankful and reblogging on http://www.4writersandreaders.com Wishing you and your Holiday Blessings! ❤
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I’m thankful for you, Bette! ❤ ❤ ❤
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Reblogged this on Bette A. Stevens, Maine Author and commented:
Thankful! ~ Bette A. Stevens
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🙂 ❤
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Beautiful tributes to gratitude, the key to the kingdom of love and light….
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Thank you Natalie for sharing your beautiful ways of expressing truth. 🙂
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You’re so very welcome, Brad. Thank you for such a nice compliment. ❤
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Your words and post touch me deeply. ❤
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Thanks, Brad, and you are so right gratitude is the key to the kingdom of love and light. Hope you’ve had a good day! ❤
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Yes thanks! 🙂
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If you knew these words are the very ones I really needed to hear right now, I just don’t know how to convey my gratitude to you. Thank you, Natalie. I seem to have a certain situation in my Life that is not receding that is begging me to see good somewhere in it. This I shall do. You have my word. Bless you! Love, Amy
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Oh, I’m so glad this helped in some way with a difficult situation. You are so very welcome. I pray that the situation is resolved or recedes quickly away. Bless you too, Amy. ❤
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Thanksgiving blessings, dear Natalie.
Hugs ~ Wendy xo
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Thanksgiving blessings right back to you too, Wendy. I hope you’ve had a good day! Hugs, N ❤ xo
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Lovely quotes Natalie. A very happy Thanksgiving to you. I hope you’re sharing it with family and having a wonderful time, eating yummy food, and laughing a lot. We truly have so much to be thankful for.
Love and blessings.
🙂 ❤
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Thanks, Staci. Yes, we did share it with our daughter and her family and had a very good time and the food was yummy! I ate way too much, but we enjoyed it and laughed a lot as well. We do have so much to be grateful for, my friend. Hugs, N ❤
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Hahaha. I think everybody eats too much. I know I do.
So glad you had such a nice time.
Blessing to you.
🙂 ❤
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Just wonderful…I am trying…really hard!! It was an interesting day….filled with incredibly awesome things that I am so grateful for…and incredibly bad things that I have been trying to see the good in. I hope your day was filled with love and blessings! ❤
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Oh, Lorrie, I’m so sorry to hear that there were some incredibly bad things in your day. I so wish I could help.
Sometimes, we can find the good in bad things until the Lord has time to bring some good out of it. So hang in there and let me know if I can help in any way. I’ll be praying for you.
Much love and huge hugs, N ❤ ❤ ❤
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Thank you dear Natalie!! I feel safe safe in your prayers! ❤ ❤
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Lovely!
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Thanks so much, Kate. 🙂
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I love the collage and the Native American poem. 🙂
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Thanks, Gigi, I’m glad you enjoyed both. Hugs, N ❤
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I love this! Gratitude is the key to many things.
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Thanks, Lionel. Yes, gratitude is a key that unlocks many a door in the Kingdom of Heaven. 🙂
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Amen to that!
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Lovingly full of thanks and praise—
Thanks be to God for all of the gifts He so generously bestows upon us all—
love to you from cookie
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Thank you, Cookie, and amen to your comment thanking God for His generosity. Much love to you as well. Hugs, N ❤
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Amen Natalie. xo
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🙂 xo
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A beautiful post. There are so many small things that we take for granted that we don’t think of being thankful for. 😀
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Thank you, Raewyn, and you are so right about us not being thankful enough. Hugs, N ❤
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Thank you so much. Blessings, Natalie 🙂
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I really appreciate your efforts and I will be
waiting for your next post thank you once again.
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Thank you. Blessings, Natalie 🙂
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Greetings I am so grateful I found your website,
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Thank you. Blessings, Natalie 🙂
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I have read so many content regarding the blogger lovers except this piece
of writing is truly a pleasant post, keep it up.
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Thank you! Blessings, Natalie 🙂
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I’m really impressed with your writing skills and also
with the layout on your blog. Is this a paid theme or
did you modify it yourself? Either way keep up the excellent quality
writing, it is rare to see a great blog like this one today.
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Thank you. It is a paid theme with WordPress.com. Blessings, Natalie 🙂
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I don’t even understand how I ended up here, however I
believed this put up used to be great. I don’t recognize
who you might be but definitely you’re going to a well-known blogger for those who aren’t already.
Cheers!
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Thank you! Blessings, Natalie 🙂
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I’m truly enjoying the design and layout of your site. It’s a very easy on the eyes which makes it
much more pleasant for me to come here and visit more often. Did
you hire out a developer to create your theme?
Superb work!
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Thank you. No, my theme is a WordPress theme that they created. 🙂
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My blog site is in the very same niche as yours and
my visitors would really benefit from a lot of the information you provide here.
Please let me know if this okay with you. Thank you!
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As long as you link to my blog that’s fine. 🙂
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