Yes, I have changed (again lol) the song playing on the right hand side bar. This song, "Breathe On Me" by Susan Ashton, Christine Dente, and Margaret Becker is just perfect for me right now. We are in the midst of alot of tests and blood work being run at the moment, and while I am more than thankful for a good doctor so willing to check everything out so thoroughly, the buzz and hype of appointment making, testing, and waiting has my head a little dizzy lol. A very dear friend of mine had introduced this album to me years ago, and it has since been one of my favorites. One that I have passed along to both my Mom and my mother-In-law as well. So there's the update on the new song! *grins*

I do have a small passage on Gratefulness I have been wanting to include for while. I have started to blog about it several times, but it just hasn't come to completion until now. This passage was found on Page 32 and 33 in chapter two: “The Way of Gratefulness” of the book I am currently reading, "Ruthless Trust" By Brennan Manning:

“John Kavanaugh relates the Story of a grateful old woman in an extended-care hospital:

“She had some kind of “wasting disease,” her different powers fading away over the march of the month. A student of mine happened upon her on a coincidental visit. The student kept going back, drawn by the strange force of the woman’s joy. Though she could no longer move her arms and legs, she would say, “I’m just so happy I can move my neck.” When she could no longer move her neck, she would say, “I’m just so glad I can hear and see.”

  When the young student finally asked the old woman what would happen if she lost her sound and sight, the gentle old lady said, “I’ll just be so grateful that you come to visit.”

  There was an uncommon freedom in the student’s eyes as she told me of her friend. Somehow a great enemy had been disarmed in her life.”

   As Brother David Steindl-Rast notes, “The root of joy is gratefulness…It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”

....and so I hope to follow in this dear old woman's example. To know and see all the good provision of the Father around me and to rest in Him. To trust in the Goodness that is Him, and let all other "clouds" fall away and dissipate. To crawl into His arms and look into the Eyes that never have, and never will, lose sight of me...

Yes Abba, Breathe on me...

 "Do you not know?
       Have you not heard?
       The LORD is the everlasting God,
       the Creator of the ends of the earth.
       He will not grow tired or weary,
       and His understanding no one can fathom.

  He gives strength to the weary
       and increases the power of the weak."

~Isaiah 40:28-29

"He tends his flock like a shepherd:

He gathers the lambs in his arms

and carries them close to his heart;

He gently leads those that have young."

~Isaiah 40:11