Monday, September 27, 2010

Immeasurable : 1000 Gifts


I could more easily contain Niagara Falls

in a tea cup that I can comprehend the
wild,
uncontainable love of God.

-Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel



Days full to bursting keep coming. Racing through these past days, I cling to grace and delight in His countless gifts.

My list continues...

0596
An afternoon at the nature center.

0597
Friday night pizza with friends.

0598
Dinner club on the porch.

0599
Neighbors.

0600
Safe returns.

0601
Homemade pie crust.

0602
Carpools.

0603
Fall blooms.


0604
Seasons.

0605
A dear friend that invited my children over for Saturday breakfast so that I could run.

0606
A string of perfect September days.

0607
A lazy Sunday afternoon watching the Redskins.


0608
Treasures found.

0609
Just sitting on the front steps.


0610
Will's excitement to play football with the older boys.

0611
Surprise parties.

0612
Cold Gatorade.

0613
"What can I do to help you, Mom?"

0614
A big pot of soup.


0615
New Lego sets... bought with his own money.

0616
Playgrounds next to practice fields.

0617
Local apples.


0618
Celebrating my godson's 4th birthday.

0619
The hymn And Can It Be

0620
...the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:7

“Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines Him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is… a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God's kindness to us in Christ Jesus.”
-A.W. Tozer


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5 comments:

  1. Jennifer,

    Thanks so much for stopping by my blog:) I have loved glancing over your blog. Love all the quotes. You have a beautiful family! I love to run as well. Good luck in the marathon....that is awesome:)

    allison

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  2. Oh, Jennifer, what a lovely post and chocked so full of beautiful gifts! I join you in gratitude for Friday night pizza (with anyone!), #613 "What can do do to help" from a little one, and friends who give of themselves so that we can enjoy something so good for body and soul!
    Love your pictures.
    blessings to you
    ~a

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  3. Lovely, lovely photos. Thank you for sharing your gratitudes :-) I love "And Can It Be" as well. Blessings to you and your family!

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  4. Beautiful blooms, bounty and faces! What a lovely list to ponder and give thanks with you. May it be endless!

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  5. I love that first quote. It reminds me of the hymn that has been going through my head over and over again lately. It is on the boys' VBS CD, and we love to sing it together.

    O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
    Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!
    Rolling as a mighty ocean
    In its fullness over me!
    Underneath me, all around me,
    Is the current of Thy love
    Leading onward, leading homeward
    To Thy glorious rest above!

    Your blog always puts me in such a beautiful mood, Jennifer.

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