Monday Gladitudes

A newish bloggy friend, Gretchen, knows the importance of being glad and having the right attitude in life. So how could I not join her?! There's just too many blessings in life to not show my "gladitude" for them and to the One Who grants them.

So on to my gladdies...

1 ~ I am so glad for His Word. I am thankful for it's teaching, admonishing, and encouragement. I'm grateful that He has given us this as a means to know Him better. Why do I struggle at times to be in it daily, when all I ever am after being in it is humbled, filled, and glad?

"Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you..."Col. 3:16a

2 ~ As crazy and weird as it may sound, I was glad today as I was paying my bills. Oh, I wasn't at first. In fact, I was feeling like complaining because I was thinking that the one month I thought we would have something leftover, a few unexpected expenses just happened to pop up. But before I could get very far, I was reminded to be thankful that those curve balls came in a month when there WAS extra. It wasn't very long ago that we weren't sure how we would buy milk and I'm complaining that I don't have a little extra money?! May it never be!! He has blessed us greatly with a roof over our heads, clothes on our bodies (which you all can add to your "glads"!), and food to eat! We are blessed indeed.

3 ~ I am gladder than glad, glad beyond measure, overflowing with gladness that my sweet, dear friend, Summer was granted her heart's desire...to be a mama! After many years of infertility, God answered Summer and Mike's prayers in an amazing, special way. Their hearts have welcomed a beautiful little girl into their family!

This special lady was meant to be a mama, and God had someone very special in mind. Baby Moriah is blessed beyond measure to call this amazing woman "mama" and God has blessed them abundantly with this sweet babe. They prayed for a child. He answered. In His time. In His way. Perfectly. Only God could have orchestrated Moriah being born into their waiting arms and hearts. He chose them for each other, and if that's not something to be glad about, I don't know what is. We can't even contain our gladness for you, Mike, Summer, and Moriah!!!

At the shower that we (Karyn, Mya, and I) recently threw for Summer and Moriah, Karyn gave Summer this poem that she found and it says it in words so beautifully...

"Not flesh of my flesh,

nor bone of my bone

but still miraculously my own

never forget -not for a minute-

you weren't born under my heart

but in it."

And this picture portrays it perfectly...

And as for me having another little babe to hold? Well, that's just the gladdy goodness on top!
I did have to share her, though, and was I glad about that? I don't have to answer that.

There are probably eleventy hundred more things that I could share that have me all gladified, like the $2 pair of almost new school jeans I found for Will at Goodwill, or that we get to spend some days this weekend visiting some good friends, or that I have 3 healthy, beautiful children, or that God has blessed me with new friends that feel like old friends, or that it's summer, the sun is shining, and my kids have those really cute tan lines, or that I have two friends who are pregnant with prayed for babies, or that I rode that ride (even though it made me sick) with my son while he still wants me to do things like that with him, or that it's no longer 108 degrees outside (cause that was too hot, even for me) but, instead, I'll just leave you with these 3 things.:)

Thanks for listening while I played "The Glad Game"!

..............I know I left "Pollyanna" laying around here somewhere...................................