June Gifts (492-518)

Three Gifts Smelled:

#492  

#493 Harbor fishiness.

#494  Freshly-minced garlic, combining with its best partner, olive oil.

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#495  A Gift Unexpected: Free, fun present.

#496  A Gift Unwanted: House sale falling through...but God's will is still and always a blessing.

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#497  A Gift Unlikely:  Two gentlemen on two planes, both noticing a wife needs to sit with her husband when a plane is full. Both sacrificing to make it happen.

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Three Gifts in His Word:

#498  "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
John 1:1

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#499  "Therefore thus says the Lord God:
'An adversary shall surround the land
and bring down your defenses from you,
and your strongholds shall be plundered.'"
Amos 3:11

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#500  "For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, 
and declares to man what is his thought, 
who makes the morning darkness, 
and treads on the heights of the earth--
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!"
Amos 4:13

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Three Gifts Moving:

#501

#502

#503

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Three Gifts in My Dad:

#504 He is "fix-it-man extraordinaire"and has never complained about all the hundreds of times I've asked him to "fix it."

#505  His loudest, early-morning sneezes are seared into my brain, and I can actually laugh about them now.

#506  He named me.  

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Three Gifts From My Heavenly Father:

#507  

He made me, fearfully and wonderfully.
(Psalm 139:14)

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#508
Sovereign. Sovereign. Perfectly sovereign.

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#509

"[He makes] beautiful things;

[He makes] beautiful things out of the dust.

[He makes] beautiful things;

[He makes] beautiful things out of us."

--Gungor

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Three Gifts I Became in Serving:

#510  Splattered by a helper.

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#511 Surprised at how much I can sometimes accomplish.

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#512  Emotional, singing for her mama on this day of remembrance.

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#513  A Gift Bent: Boy on the brink of manhood.

#514  A Gift Beautiful: Everything right here in front of me.

#515  A Gift Loved:  Pinkest ballerina.

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Three Gifts Found in Light:

#516  Four littles with glow sticks twirling by the light of a street lamp.

#517 Music maker in the spotlight.

#518 Our city, festive and sparkling.

There are so many reasons to count...