And in EVERYTHING give Thanks... Day 1

Homecoming 2012

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Whew October came and went didn't it! I hope you were able to get out and participate in a Breast Cancer Awareness or Domestic Violence Awareness walk/run, activity, outreach etc. May we not just remember those impacted by these things just in the month of October but all year long.

With November just popping up on us I am going to attempt (God willing) to take on this 30 days of thankfulness proposed my one of my sorority sisters. That means I am going to blog something I'm thankful for everyday this month. (Lord help me on these weekends.) Lol! We are on the brink of the close of this year and looking back on 2012 God has snatched me out and kept me still in some quiet and at times lonely places. Places where I felt like He had forgotten about me, perhaps ignoring me and that this too might not pass. But I'm thankful for the people who let Him use them because they were those reminders in this season that in order for me to become the woman He is calling me to be I am going to have to sit quietly in His presence and just be still. Whew!

So this month I am encouraging you to join me in this! Whether you are writing in your journal what you're thankful for, posting it on Facebook, tweeting it, making a tweetgram on instagram (hello 21st century), or just professing with your mouth each morning! Some of us have traveled through some thick places to get to November and some of us have had to pull and pray others through. Either way we all have had to uplift, move forward, pray, fight the enemy, live, and press onward to arrive at this destination and for THAT we should be thankful!

Amen?!!

Kevin Levar and One Sound-Atmosphere of Faith

So here goes:

Have PATIENCE with all things, but first of all with yourself.
-St. Francis de Sales

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.
-Galatians 5:22

I must admit that I can be impatient at times. Just my story above shows you how hard it is for me to be in a season of waiting. And quite honestly for years I thought that longsuffering meant suffering for a long time. (Don't you judge my interpretation.) Lol! But when I discovered that it literally translates into the word patience I thought well heck they are both pretty tough things to deal with and God is calling ME to possess this in the spiritual because these are good fruits (qualities) that we should desire and own?! Oh boy! I find myself at times not being as impatient with my circumstances but in my inability to check myself on it before I get in too deep.

But let me tell you in this season I've learned to do that. I've learned that in order to grow as a person I have to make some changes and that growth in itself (especially in the spiritual) takes time particularly when you are trying to suppress something that you have "BEEN" for a long time (longsuffering).

So today I'm thankful for being patient with myself, with God, with His revelation, and with this season.

#nomakeup

I look forward to seeing your affirmations of thanksgiving throughout the month!

All my love,
Caneeka

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