I am not looking for any goodness or kindness from God,
just as my kids are not looking for any of that from me. Love is the overriding factor.
I am very thankful for many things, my family being the most important.
I have trouble defining 'God' as I am married to someone who at one time deeply believed in God and was very involved with the things of God.
She totally denies God now and says He is a figment of your imagination, in other words there is no God.
Fortunately she still loves me, not only that but our relationship has gotten even better since that time.
So I see God in a totally different way and to tell you the truth it has been quite liberating.
He has gotten a lot bigger, to the extend that at times I'm speechless.
God cannot be contained, He fills everything, there's no place that He is not.
Nobody can get away from His presence. He is involved in every thing.
Job said, "What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?"
He makes the sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends the rain on the just and on the unjust.
Just this week I had an incident happen to me.
You see I love to play Golf and play once a week this time of year.
My golf clubs and some other things got stolen out of my Van this Thursday, I felt pretty sick about it at the time.
I reported it to the Police, not thinking or hoping I would hear anything about it.
I was totally at peace except did not like the fact that someone broke into my Van on my property.
Well wouldn't you know I got a call from the police today that they located my clubs on the web, for sale
and are waiting for just the right time to make a move, and I didn't even pray about it
So, I am grateful and yes I might be more aware and receptive to God's blessings than some one who doesn't believe.
"Lord, help us to give thanks in everything."