We Are Thankful: Our Thankful Tree

While it is true that we should ceaslessly give thanks to the LORD throughout the year, it is wonderful to set time aside to refocus and reflect on everything for which we have to be thankful. This year for Thanksgiving (and the weeks leading up to it), we decided to do something special to highlight the many reasons we are greatful to God.

Enter "The Thankful Tree."

Yesterday, while the temperature was much warmer than today's delightful 50 degrees, we found two branches that had the perfect height, width, and overall appearance. This was surprinsingly more difficult than we anticipated! We brought in our branches and placed them in a vase weighed down with small stones. Scrapbook paper leftover from homemade wedding invitations was great for our "thankful notes." We simply cut it into squares, hole punched the top, and tied the ribbon through. Now all that's left to do is decorate each branch with thanks.

Our number one reason to be always thankful was the first on the tree: Perfect salvation through Jesus Christ

I'm excited to see all the things for which my family is thankful appear on the tree!

In our home, Thanksgiving is one of our most cherished holidays! (Especially for my Dad--also known as Papi) And since we're ALL together in the same house this year, we took great joy in decorating! Our favorite decor pieces are the floral arrangements that we used at my wedding almost two years ago. Yes, I will have been married to the man of my dreams for two years on November 28!

Oh, and I just love flipping this calendar over to the next month to see the beautiful scenery! Although we don't typically have Novembers that look like this in southern Indiana, it makes me smile with anticipation for the months ahead!

"Oh come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us shout joyfully to him with psalms. For the LORD is the great God, and the great King above all gods... Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker." -Psalm 95:1-3, 6