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I choose to give thanks

I have been seeing alot on thanksgiving and today I choose to give thanks."Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name." -Psalm 100:4

 I am thankful to be alive and well. Grateful that I know Jesus as my Saviour and that He died for me and loves me. I thank God for my family. I thank God for my one in a million husband, a father to Samara and Jaden. My beloved is the best companion that has and can walk with me through the various seasons of life. I am thankful for baby gal, yesterday she told me she isn't called baby gal, she is growing too fast. I thank God for her energy, her smile and laughter. Today, she did not want to leave me home as she wanted to be sure that I shall make it to her school concert and watch her dance. I am looking forward to seeing her perform. Samara reminds us of God's faithfulness, we are so blessed to have her, she has a beautiful her and will always be big sister. I am also thankful for baby J. He was a source of joy to us and very peaceful. He reminded us of God's faithfulness and how awesome God is in our lives. He looked so much like Samara and we often wondered how God can almost duplicate two people to look same same.

Through baby J from birth to when we laid him to rest, we were reminded how blessed we are with friends and family. God restored so many friendships.God used people to show us much and unconditional love. We saw people sacrifice so much for us.  We can't name them all, with time maybe I shall. Am so thankful and today let me just say a big thank you to Rosemary. She is about 5 months pregnant and has been on her feet and there for me. She has picked baby gal from school when we were admitted in hospital, she and her hubby have left their 2 year old  son with the nanny many nights just to sleep over and ensure that we are ok. She has woken up early to make sure we have breakfast.She has called almost everyday and cried with me many times. I am so thankful and pray that the Lord may just bless her and her family. We have so many friends, true friends and thank God for each one of you this day.

I choose to be thankful and pray that you may also count your blessings this day.Have a great weekend.

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Rosemary Teka said…
Sly it's been a while since I read your blog as I have been confessing to you, now I am reading this and my hanky is already wet I can't stop crying at the memories of Jaden and as I read this,I can't thank you enough for sharing your heart with the world out there its not an easy thing to do.

Regarding us being there for you my dear you are welcome anytime there is no other place I or even my hubby would have rather been than right there by your side and we will always be there for you we treasure your friendship and want to share all that life will bring our way as we grow old and wise both the good times and the bad...we love you.
26 November 2012 at 22:20
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