Week's end with thanks

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• Both kids in carhartt hand-me-down overalls, digging for worms all day. Watching their imaginations unleashed as they dug, created worm farms, did surgery on injured worms (Dutch: “Just cut off the hurt part!”), and cooperated. Oh Lord, thank you for sunshine!! 
• Dirt.
• Sunshine.
• Lounging in a lawn chair in March? Yes, please!
• Sunshine.
• Time to rest.
• Did I mention sunshine??
• RENEW women. Love those ladies.
• April.
• Heidi’s curls, always falling perfectly around her face. She’s so oblivious. I’m in love with that girl!
• Blue skies.
• God’s Word that never changes.
• Resting in Him.
• Afternoon hanging with the neighbor. Love how God connects. 
• Other’s kindness.
• Night with amazing women of God, celebrating Elijah’s healing.
• Being ok with muddy floors, worms in the house, fingerprints on the french doors, and little piles of dirt on the counter. We only get to do this childhood thing once, people! We might as well enjoy it! 🙂
• Seder meal. Looking to Jesus.
• Fellowship.
• Others’ generosity.
• Hundreds–thousands?–of tiny buds springing up on limbs all over the yard. Signs of life! Life!
• That there is nothing, nothing that can separate us from the love of God.
• Good neighbors.
• Trying to be one.
• Gobbling homemade oatmeal-yogurt bars.
• Homemade turkey pot pie. Um…wow. So delicious.
•  Bare feet.
• Dirty hair pulled back.
• Yesterday’s yoga pants.
• Loving days like this.
• Tea.
• Peace.
• Discussions — arguments? — about whether a certain worm is a boy or a girl.
• That Dutch said this today: “Mommy, I don’t need  a pet snake anymore! I have a pet worm instead!” Oh I’m so grateful for this!!!
• Watching Heidi holding a handful of worms, carefully petting them and playing with them. Oh that girl. She’s amazing.
• Snuggly animals playing with the worms. Is there no end to the fun that worms can bring?? 
• Learning about life in the margins.
• The precious–priceless–perspective of what life is like outside this middle-class. Oh I need new eyes all the time! 
• Run in the sunshine! Oh my I’m out of shape but it still feels good to run in the sun!
• Running prayer circles around the Revival Building.
• Believing God for revival, HERE, in my heart.
• Dutch, sitting just gazing at his beloved worm (in a fishbowl with mud and sticks and grass), saying, “Oh mommy, I love having a pet. Sammy makes me so happy. I love my pet.” Oh the joys of a little boy and his muddy pet.
• That I KNOW my heavenly Father watches me with that same love. That He cherishes me, and He cherishes you.

May you know the love of God this weekend! Bask in it. He loves you so. Thanks for reading.