Timely Helpers

 

“If we can help, we help.”

~ Motto of Bruce Hayes

 

When Debbie Gaudin was going through cancer treatments, her strength and energy levels were running on low.  Sensing her dilemma, friend Elizabeth Crouch Glasgow stepped up to help.  The Christmas shopping was complete, so Elizabeth offered to wrap the gifts.  David, Debbie’s husband, took around 70 gifts to Elizabeth.  She sat on the floor, in front of the television, and began wrapping.  Debbie remembered, “She took all of the Christmas gifts that I bought that year and wrapped all of them for me (for free)!  And I’m not talking just some wrapping paper thrown on them.  I’m talking wrapped with beautiful ribbon and special treats on each and every one of them!  They were soooo pretty!  I’ll never forget that, Elizabeth Crouch Glasgow!!  It meant sooo, sooo much to me.  Thank you!”

 

Midway High School’s drama department was presenting the play “Matilda.”  As people were arriving, several seniors noticed a 91-year-old lady getting out of a car in the rain.  They quickly raced out to the car, held umbrellas over her, and helped her get in safely so she could watch her great-granddaughter in the play.

 

When Framber Valdez was 20 years old, he lived in Guayacanes, San Pedro de Macoris.  He couldn’t find a way to leave and be able to try out or sign with Major League Baseball.  Pastors Antonio and Edwin would give him money for his fare and food.  Valdez promised that if he was ever signed with a MLB team he would build them a nice and big church.  After signing and playing, Framber fulfilled his promise.  He expressed, “God sees and exalts the humble.  When you do things from the heart, without expecting anything in return, God blesses you with many blessings.”  Framber Valdez now pitches for the Houston Astros and has helped win a World Series title for the 2022 season.

 

 

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Galatians 6:9

 

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

Colossians 3:12

Thanks Giving to Thanks Living

 

The pathway to contentment

 is paved in gratitude.

 

 

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”

~ William Arthur Ward

 

 

“Gratitude,

help us to see what

is there instead

of what isn’t.”

~Annette Bridges

 

 

 

“I am grateful for what I am and have.  My thanksgiving is perpetual.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

 

 

“Thankfulness

is the quickest

path to joy.”

~ Jefferson Bethke

 

 

“No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.”

~ James Allen

 

 

“Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices.

~ Robert Brathe

 

 

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”

~ G.K. Chesterton

 

 

“Thanksgiving was never meant

to be shut up in a single day.”

~ Robert Caspar Lintner

 

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

~ A.A. Milne

 

“O Lord that lends

me life, lend me

a heart replete with

thankfulness.”

~ William Shakespeare

 

 

What if today we were just grateful for everything.

 

 

“Always have an

attitude of gratitude.”

~Sterling K. Brown

 

 

“In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”

~ Dietrich Bonhoffer

 

“Everything we do

should be a result of

our gratitude for what

God has done for us.”

~ Lauryn Hill

 

 

“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.  Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.  Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”

~ Henry Van Dyke

 

 

During this season, may our thanks giving lead to thanks living.  Happy Thanksgiving!

 

 

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

Psalm 100:4

 

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.

Psalm 107:1

 

And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and tell of his deeds in songs of joy.

Psalm 107:22

 

giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.   

Ephesians 5:20

 

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:18