My friend Angela over at Trusting Daily has issued a challenge. List 100 things we are grateful for!  because our lunch break is almost over, I'm going to break my 100 list in to smaller increments. The kids will be ready to finish school soon!

I'm thankful for:

1. Jesus, my savior who died for me and has given me eternal salvation! Galatians 2;20 is my "life verse".

2. My Godly husband who is my dearest friend after the Lord.

3. My son--who is precious

4. My daughter--who is precious

5. My parents--both Christians. My mother is at home with the Lord now and Dad is just at the house. No kid ever had better parents than me! 

6. My Godly grandparents. Especially Papaw Roy who taught me how to pray at his humble altar in the woods behind the house near the muscadine vines. I have to say, though, i did more snacking than praying then. And my sweet little country Mamaw who taught me about so much and was like a mother to me when My own little Mom went to Heaven.

7. All the rest of my family.

8. Being raised in Tennessee. I'm a 10 th generation Tennesseean [some of my ancestors settled here in the early Watauga days--it's no wonder my inlaws laugh at how many cousins I have! WE GOT HERE AND NEVER LEFT FOR NEARLY TWO HUNDRED FIFTY YEARS!!!!!!]

9.  Being a Baptist. I love all Christians no matter their denomination, but i have a special place in my heart for baptists--esepcially little Baptist grannies that talk with a twang and punctuate their sentences with "child" and "honey".

10. Voice of the Martyrs--what a dear ministry this is!

11. To have a Bible of my own, especially when so many of my Christian family aroudn the world don't have one.

12. Miz Ruby's fried okra--heavenly!!!!!!

13.  Love  notes from my children.

14.  A car--especially one that doesn't smell too bad. If you've read Doehill very long, you probably can guess there's a story behind that one.....I won't share it online though!

15.  My Sunday School class at Friendship Baptist church--they are the best group of kids I've ever taught.

16. My freedom & living in America

17. My dear church---surely some of the best people in the Kingdom go to Friendship. I love them dearly.

18. Creation Science

19. My Granny's recipe book she wrote for me when i was eightteen.

20. my great Grandparents--oops! I should have put them earlier on. My little Granny was blind when I knew her but she used to love to brush my long hair and tell me about Jesus. My Grandpa was one of the last real Mountain Men  that i know of---this modern world is too neat for the likes of him. He had a heart bigger than the handle-bar mustache he wore and the big Stetson he never left home without. OH THE STORIES HE COULD TELL!

21.  cold springwater

22. homeschooling

23. picking blackberries

24. singing in church

25. Gutenburg. Without him, I couldn't be the corner-stuffing biblio-hog that I am today. My husband, however, has placed a moratorium on my book acquisitions. He suggests I try to buy some clothes for a while.  No wonder he's #2 on the list.