While I am living in a place where the days are the same length year round and where the weather is always above room temperature, my body and my brain can be caught off guard by the passing of time. Throughout my childhood, the days would get shorter and the weather would turn colder signaling that the fall and winter were coming. The changing of the seasons in this way somehow announed the coming of Thanksgiving and then Christmas, but in my current home things are different. The rain storms get stronger and less frequent and the days get hotter to signal the change from rainy season to dry season, the time to harvest again and give thanks for another year.
So, now I am thinking of all that I have to be thankful for and the list is LONG!
Psalm 95
1 Come, let us sing to the Lord!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come to him with thanksgiving.
Let us sing psalms of praise to him.
3 For the Lord is a great God,
a great King above all gods.
4 He holds in his hands the depths of the earth
and the mightiest mountains.
5 The sea belongs to him, for he made it.
His hands formed the dry land, too.
6 Come, let us worship and bow down.
Let us kneel before the Lord our maker,
7 for he is our God.
We are the people he watches over,
the flock under his care.
If only you would listen to his voice today!
8 The Lord says, “Don’t harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah,
as they did at Massah in the wilderness.
9 For there your ancestors tested and tried my patience,
even though they saw everything I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with them, and I said,
‘They are a people whose hearts turn away from me.
They refuse to do what I tell them.’
11 So in my anger I took an oath:
‘They will never enter my place of rest.’”
Enjoying melted candy 
Stealing Mom’s phone 
Getting ready for bed 
