100 Things I'm Thankful For Today

These curious days have given new realizations of how kind God has been to us in the past, how kind He is to us now, and how kind He will be to us in the future.



Today, I'm thankful for:

1. The privilege of decades spent gathering together with other believers for Bible study, worship, preaching, and prayer.
2. Delivery people
3. Another 60 degree April day
4. Bread only requires 3 main ingredients to bake
5. Grocery store stockers, clerks, and management
6. The medical training that has equipped people to understand much about how the human body works
7. God put an atmosphere around Earth. That is so amazing, when you take a look at the rest of our solar system...
8. 4 boys, all playing happily (for certain periods of time)
9. Isaiah 41:10
10. Cinnamon rolls
11. Tree trimming before the tree fell down
12. Podcasts
13. Hand soap. (And an easy improvisation when none was available at the store...) 
14. The IT department
15. Our house and yard
16. The postal service
17. Chemotherapy
18. Waste management systems
19. Flushing toilets (whether or not you have toilet paper, this is a big win)
20. The Bible in my own language
21. Kind friends
22. 3-day weekends
23. Vegetable seeds
24. A cloud of witnesses, all bearing truth to God's faithfulness to His promises and urging us to walk in a manner worthy of the gospel
25. Strollers
26. Cell phones
27. Marco Polo
28. Zoom
29. Google Hangouts
30. Knowing how to type on a keyboard
31. Crews that fill potholes
32. A solid roof
33. Online giving
34. A working microwave
35. A working oven
36. A working refrigerator
37. A working freezer and a working chest freezer
38. A working washer
39. A working dryer
40. A working bread machine
41. A working blender
42. Online piano lessons
43. My camera, which takes pictures even though my phone doesn't
44. A very comfortable mattress
45. No back pain
46. No headache
47. No food pain
48. No abdominal pain
49. No nausea
50. No coughing
51. No fever
52. No broken bones
53. Homemade syrup
54. Knowing that people are praying for us and care for us even though we can't see them in person
55. The library system
56. Possibly being able to get new books from the library
57. Pharmacies and pharmacists
58. A vacuum
59. Brown sugar. You can do so many wonderful things with brown sugar...
60. Heart-stirring music
61. Romans 8
62. The promise of resurrected bodies one day
63. The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
64. Chicken marinades
65. Pastor Jason's Kids Corner and Don't Lose Heart sessions
66. Our garage
67. That He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
68. The opportunity to pray for hurting people and places even on the other side of the world
69. All the epistles that Paul wrote from prison
70. Our very fun egg drop
71. Our small group
72. Our extended family
73. Our church
74. Our co-workers
75. Our neighbors, whom we have gotten to connect with a little bit more in this season
76. Safe streets to walk
77. The new heavens and the new earth, where we will dwell with God forever, if we are part of His people
78. Repentance and forgiveness for sin, because Jesus already paid for it
79. Fresh enabling to walk in God's ways, because He has put His own Spirit within us to give us new desires and new capacity for growth in Christ-likeness
80. Faithful is He who calls you, and He will also bring it to pass
81. The mind's ability to learn new things
82. People who are good at fixing things
83. Fresh fruit and vegetables
84. Canned fruit and vegetables
85. Long shelf-life foods like flour, rice, and oats
86. Butter. Butter can make at least as many delicious things as brown sugar, maybe more, and when combined with brown sugar, it is very wonderful.
87. Siblings
88. All the #JesusChangedMyLife videos
89. Charles Simeon Trust workshops
90. Green growing things
91. Lilacs
92. All the boys' clothes that don't have holes in them
93. Kleenex
94. Glasses
95. Family pictures
96. Being able to remember things (sometimes)
97. Excellent literature
98. Food blogs
99. The rhythm of work and rest that God built into the world
100. Jesus lived a perfect life; He willingly died on the cross, not for anything wrong that He did but in order to pay the price for our sin. He was buried. They sealed the tomb, but they could not hold Him. He is risen!