Thanksgiving

for family and being together at home on a wet, windy November evening.

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Thanksgiving

for expository preaching. Isn’t it amazing how when we’re studying a book, there is so much relevant application that we’ve never seen before.

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Thanksgiving

for godly parents and parents-in-law.

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Thanksgiving

for communication systems (very broad all encompassing).

Mobile/ Cell phone, email. I’ve just received an email from our friend Bernard in North West Zambia. Sometimes communicating with Bernard and his wife Joyce is somewhat difficult, usually as he doesn’t have access to a computer or the weather has affected his mobile phone signal. I’m still amazed that we can still communicate even though he lives in a remote area with very few of the facilities we take for granted in the West.

It’s good to keep in touch and that he can keep us informed of the neeeds of the Children’s village in Ikelenge.

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Thanksgiving

for a cold,sunny windy day. I walked into town, lovely to enjoy the fresh air.

I met a friend from church on the way home. She’s been widowed this year and misses her husband who she cared for through many years of ill-health. She’s an amazing testimony to God’s sustaining grace.

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Thanksgiving

for being able to meet with the Lord’s people on the Lord’s day.

Sunday Hymn

All that I was, my sin, my guilt,
My death, was all mine own;
All that I am I owe to Thee,
My gracious God, alone.

The evil of my former state
Was mine, and only mine;
The good in which I now rejoice
Is Thine, and only Thine.

The darkness of my former state,
The bondage, all was mine;
The light of life in which I walk,
The liberty, is Thine.

Thy Word first made me feel my sin,
It taught me to believe;
Then, in believing, peace I found,
And now I live, I live!

All that I am, e’en here on earth
All that I hope to be,
When Jesus comes and glory dawns,
I owe it, Lord to Thee.

H. Bonar

Hymntime

Thanksgiving

that we’ve been able to replace the guttering of the house (it had been leaking) and paint the exterior.

The painting was a much bigger undertaking than we’d anticipated.The house is rendered and when the painter came to paint the gable end of the house it was loose, you could have peeled it away . It had to be removed  and several layers of cement and exterior coating applied- house maintenenence is never simple! It  was completed before the wet and windy weather started. I’m thankful for safety for the men who did the work as the side of the house is high.

Thanksgiving

for something very practical today, the tumble dryer. It’s a real wet day here and the damp clothing would have taken several days to dry.

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Thanksgiving

that my husband and I complement one another.

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