Friday, August 23, 2024

One Thousand Gifts: Friday, Week Fifty-Four

 



Happy Friday, Friends!  How was your week?  Mine has been fantastic!  :D  Do you have any fabulous weekend plans?

Have you been by Starbucks yet to have your first PSL of the season?  Shelley thanks you if you have!  ;P




This week's lesson is entitled "amaryllis grace."  I thought that this one was a hard read syntactically.  I think it's interesting that an amaryllis bulb her mother-in-law gave her shortly (within the year) before she passed blooms on her kitchen windowsill becomes her 1,000th entry in her gratitude journal.  Very bittersweet IMHO....  

Do you have any thoughts about this lesson?  


Here is the scripture for this week:



Ann also referenced four other Bible verses in the devotion, including:





Prayer Requests

  • Pray for Terry and Kris's move.  Pray that everything will go well for them as they decorate, unpack, and get settled.
  • Carla's son Sam has friends who will be deploying to Iraq. Please be in prayer for our military and military families... this is a Wisconsin National Guard unit that is deploying to Iraq.  Sam is not deploying, but he has friends in this unit.
  • Pray for Kitty's son Mike to get a job. AI has taken away many jobs in his industry.  Mike might have the opportunity to redo a game with a friends.  Let's pray that this works out for him, and it will lead to more opportunities.
  • Rita asks for prayers for her sweet daughters as their graduate school semester is beginning.  Pray for them to have a healthy and productive work/school/life balance.  
  • Pray for Christian leadership in our country.  Also pray that God will turn our hearts to him, and he will lavishly bless us with his steadfast love.
  • Please pray for a job opportunity for our oldest daughter Shanley (her post doc will be coming to an end).  Also, our son-in-law Christopher is applying for a CMO position within the pediatric practice/company he works for.  Please pray that God's will be done for their job opportunities.  

If you have any other requests, please email me or leave in comments and I will update our list.  Thank you!




Until next time...

Blessings!
Ricki Jill


3 comments

  1. Happy Friday to all the Prayer Warriors .. love and prayers, Carla

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  2. Thank you for posting g all the updated prayer requests, Ricki Jill. I will be praying for all of our friends. Happy weekend to all.

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  3. Enjoying my Saturday after spending a few productive days in Cincinnati at my sister's. I'm honored to pray for each of your requests. A small praise re: helping my SC sister relocate: small signs are pointing toward possible options for an apt and for the logistics of moving. It's hard, and I'm thankful for numerous siblings offering to help!

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Thank-you for sharing your thoughts about the guided journaling. Feel free to share your prayer requests in comments, too.