Thank you…..

Luke 17:11-19 tells the story of ten lepers healed by Jesus.

Only 1 came back to say “Thank You”

That’s hard to imagine, but I am not always grateful when I should be.   I take too many things for granted…

Here is a poem that spoke to me today. Don’t forget to give thanks….I need to work on that…

“One of the Nine” by Melinda Williams

“I am one of the nine

   too often–

   reaping the blessings

    but unwilling,

        unable

  to give thanks.

My brokenness continues –

  I am

  weak beneath the surface,

  pieced together

  but breaking again

    immediately

in my rush to live.

“Where are the other nine?”

They are with me,

   forgetting they ever needed

       to be healed

    at all.

They are in me,

   and I pray the one part that returned

   to give thanks

is enough

   for now

to keep me connected

with you.”

Father, thank you for your grace even when I fail to give you “thanks.”   Your love is amazing, steady and unchanging.  You dance over me, when I am unaware.  I am amazed by you, I am amazed by you.  Father, your mercy falls and I thank you!!