In All Things Give Thanks

Great is THY faithfulness!

We awoke to much cooler weather this morning on the farm....... Thank goodness! I really must admit that I do not enjoy the stifling hot & humid heat of the Midwest!  I much prefer cooler temperatures! I am so grateful for modern conveniences like A/C! 

This morning I have had a lovely hymn on my heart and I have been singing it all day...

                                      " Great is Thy Faithfulness"

   " If it is the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness" ~ Lamentations 3: 22 & 23

Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father, there is no shadown of turning with Thee;

Thou changest not, Thy compassions fail not; as Thou has been Thou forever forever wilt be.

Chorus:

Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy Faithfulness!  Morning by morning new mercies I see; all I have needed Thy hand hath provided; great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me!

Words: Thomas Chisholm, 1923

Music: William Marion Runyan, 1923

  One of the challenges we have been expierencing since our move to the homestead is less financial security for my husband's work. Basically carpenters are a "dime and dozen" here in this part of the country.  Thus, we have struggled to make ends meet.

But, with that said ~~ God has truly been faithful! Oh, my has He ever been! Whenever I begin to fret a bit about being able to make ends meet or whenever I feel like I can't engage in any "splurges" for the family ( that is the non essentials), God faithfully provides there too!

This past week we have been richly blessed ~~ a friend blessed us with a bushel of beautiful peaches...our pastor's wife gave us a HUGE bag of brown rice ....... our farmer friend gave us a few acres worth of corn to pick ~~ for free ~~ and my husband came home yesterday with a cooler full of baking goods, chocalates, etc that his customer had given him that he no longer was in need of!! Things I certainly could not have afforded at this time in our lives.

Isn't the Lord faithful??!

Now you see "why" I have been singing " Great is Thy Faithfulness" ........ He is so faithful, He takes care of the essentials, but often times He throws in some of the "extras" of life too!

We serve an awesome God ~~ I hope you all realize that today and may you also sing with your hearts and soul ~ "Great is HIS faithfulness!"

May you be blessed!

~ gloria~

PS. Update to my original post today!! I just received a call from my husband -- one of his clients is gifting us with a freezer!!! PTL!! I have been wanting to put up more food, but my freezer space was maxed and we needed a freezer!! Thank you , Lord!