Fridays Letters Link Up & a Poem

Dear God

Thank you for allowing certain things to

happen to conform me more into the

image of thy son Jesus Christ and to

bring all the glory to you.

Dear Ann Voskamp

You are truly amazing.

I love your blog so so much!

Dear Kerrin

I am so very grateful for you

and our friendship. You are an

amazing daughther of God and

I am so happy that our paths

have crossed.

Dear Husband

I cannot begin to explain

how very blessed I am to have you.

I thank God for you each and every day.



Within the New Year in full swing, I have been focusing more on gratitude and
making time to write in my gratitude journal every night the things that I was grateful for that day.
After recording my thoughts in my gratitude journal last night I happened to pick up the Ensign
and came across this poem written by Sharon Steele in Utah.


On Gratitude

In a certain village, on a certain day,

ten lepers stood far off

and lifted up their voices unto Christ:

“Have mercy on us, Master, please,

take our infirmities away.”

And it was done. According to the grace

of the Savior, Father’s Son,

they showed themselves unto the priest

and were cleansed.

And one of them, on finding he was whole,

paused moments on a grassy knoll,

turned his back

upon the path he would have trod,

and fell upon his face in praise of God.

But of the other nine, no word of thanks

escaped their tongues;

no hymns of praise were sung.

Too busy in their haste

to get on with their lives—

to publish joyous tidings

to their children and their wives—

perhaps without intending to be rude,

they overlooked the sacrament of thanks

and lost the sacred blessing bought

by showing gratitude.

Oh, that I might

from this parable be taught

and practice well the part

of living with an ever-grateful heart.