I am grateful for cat hair. It just means we have an adorable creature to take care of for John.

I am grateful for the means to buy organic certified pasture-raised, free range, non-GMO, antibiotic pesticide free… It just means that we have turned a corner, or at least we have approached the corner, and there will be much more thought that will go into what we put into our mouths, thanks to this book.

I am grateful for the heaviness of humidity. It means we experienced the heavenly dry, cool air of southwest Colorado.

I am grateful for new cards made by a Colorado artist, and new books for my collection, all personalized and signed.

I am grateful for hope.

And I am grateful when God continues to speak through His Word to us. This morning in our anxiety, it was this:

Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in him!…

…Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies…

…I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. – Philippians 4:4-14 THE MESSAGE