thankful thursdays

I am thankful this week for all the little ways in which I saw the hand of God in our lives. There have been so many. He has been aware of what we needed & how we needed to get there. It is such a blessing to be able to recognize those things as they occur & not think that it's a simple coincidence.

I love what David A. Bednar said about this:

"...the tender mercies of the Lord are real and that they do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence. Often, the Lord's timing of His tender mercies helps us to both discern and acknowledge them."

"...We should not underestimate or overlook the power of the Lord's tender mercies. The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live. When words cannot provide the solace we need or express the joy we feel, when it is simply futile to attempt to explain that which is unexplainable, when logic and reason cannot yield adequate understanding about the injustices and inequities of life, when mortal experience and evaluation are insufficient to produce a desired outcome, and when it seems that perhaps we are so totally alone, truly we are blessed by the tender mercies of the Lord and made mighty even unto the power of deliverance..."

Thankful. Thankful. Thankful!