Giving thanks…

We should give thanks daily, not just at Thanksgiving. We are reminded this time of the year to be thankful, and that is good, but all through our lives we must stop and thank God for his love and mercy, and his unlimited grace. Unlike us we have limits, our love is conditional, there are boundaries. We only get a taste or glimpse of God’s unconditional love by our love for our children. We love them no matter what, even through their brokenness, and that is image God’s grace.

I usually write or speak about my daughters. I have also included them in many of my sermon illustrations, they are a gift and I am thankful. But this Thanksgiving, I am so thankful for the men that God has sent to my daughters, my son-in-laws. They are truly a gift to my daughters and our family. They are answers to our prayers. Sabrina and I started praying when our daughters were little girls, praying for their understanding of God, their life, their struggles, and their spouses. We had ideas of what we wanted for each of them, and most importantly, a man who loved God first, before them. Then we prayed for their character and personalities, asking God to bless them with the right guy. And as always, God is faithful, He answer’s prayers in his way and in his time, and bringing to mind that our ways are not his ways. We thank God for that…he answered in his time, and he answered perfectly. Far beyond what we prayed for they are both perfect for our daughters, (not perfect…God is still working on them), but he blessed them with the right husbands, and us with the right son-in-laws.

We love them, and we thank God for them, they are a blessing, and we give thanks to God the Father, who sent his son, Jesus Christ, so that we would be made right with God. His way is perfect… we should give thanks.