Tag: blessing

Cool Gift

by Tonya LaLonde, posted in appreciation, assurance, dog, encouragement, God, thanks, walking

Blue (our dog) and I walked this evening just as the sun was setting. As we finished our mile, i looked up and was admiring the few starts becoming visible and thanking God for being with me and I saw a gift from God, a shooting star. It felt like a validation so it felt good and I am very thankful. God is so good, even when we are at our worst. His love is so faithfully consistent!😃❤️

Never Alone

by Tonya LaLonde, posted in blessing, memories

We who are more, ahem, mature understand the value in our accumulative memory. When we have hit a closeness with the Lord and managed to forgive everyone and accept everything else, what we have left is a close loving relationship with God and good memories. These things are like a gold crown on our mature heads. They yield a rich heart that is full of love, not judgment, rich with compassion, not bitterness. And I am, for the first time, properly thankful to God for my many years. I am so thankful for all the good memories and people God has blessed my life with, so many. I miss many of them but know I can visit in my memories or even pick up a phone or pen and paper. Some I am still a part of. And I am thankful that I have not shaken everything off in my journey to get here in health spiritually and emotionlly. I am not signing off until Jesus snatches me up, but I wanted to just bask a moment in beautiful and bountiful great memories and blessings. God is so very good, friends. Don’t neglect His prominent place in your celebrations. May He bless you for it!😄❤

Finished Reading a Book!

by Tonya LaLonde, posted in appreciation, blessing, God, thanks, time

Thanks be to God! I actually was able to squeeze in reading an entire book!! That was alongside teaching and working and the band and family needs and wants and reading my Bible and birthdays and so on! An entire book! I am so thankful to God who has taught me to use every moment for the best and provided more usable time for me than I thought possible. Praise God!😄❤📚