TGIF - Thank Goodness It's Friday

Happy Friday...

Lower back is still a little sore, but feeling better and moving a little faster...I am focused on making up for lost time... Sorry about missing Thursday's Devotional... I have a good one today and most will agree that I had a good reason to Grumble, but found that even in pain there was much to be grateful about... 

I knew the pain would finally work through, it had so many times before... The heavy afternoon rain did little to dampen my spirit and walking through the puddles made me feel young again... 

Richard

Grumbling or Grateful?

BIBLE MEDITATION: “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His name.” Psalm 100:4

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
One day a preacher was riding on a train. He saw a well-dressed man and magnificently dressed woman with expensive jewelry. The woman was complaining about everything – the train ride, the weather, the news, the food, the service.

The preacher decided to engage this couple in a conversation. He asked the man what kind of business he was in and the man told him. Then he asked, “And what does your wife do?”

The man replied, “Oh, she’s in the manufacturing business. She manufactures her own unhappiness.”

You know, there are a lot of people like that today. They manufacture their own misery because they fail to be grateful. Only Christ can turn our lives around and stir up a grateful heart within us.

ACTION POINT:
Go through the alphabet and thank the Lord for something beginning with each letter and choose to be grateful.

Daily Smile:

Two peanuts where walking down the road and one was a salted!

My Whistling Hymn Of The Moment:

Glorious is Thy name, O Lord
1.
Blessed Savior, we adore Thee
We Thy love and grace proclaim:
Thou art mighty, thou art holy,
Glorious is Thy matchless name!

Chorus:
Glorious,
   (Glorious is Thy name, O Lord!)
Glorious,
   (Glorious is Thy name, O Lord!)
Glorious is Thy name, O Lord!
Glorious,
   (Glorious is Thy name, O Lord!)
Glorious,
   (Glorious is Thy name, O Lord!)
Glorious is Thy name, O Lord!

2.
Great Redeemer, Lord and Master,
Light of all eternal days;
Let the saints of ev'ry nation
Sing Thy just and endless praise!

3. From the throne of heaven's glory
To the cross of sin and shame.
Thou didst come to die a ransom
Guilty sinners to reclaim!