Giving Thanks

November 26, 2015

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I’m thankful for Selah June.

Here is what she represents to me.

  • unconditional love
  • excruciatingly painful sacrifice
  • willful obedience
  • abiding faith and relentless hope
  • peace through the storm
  • family that stretches across genetics, heritage, and distance
  • laughter from morning to night night
  • curiosity and excitement for the next adventure
  • relational, reciprocal, and limitless love
  • mutual dependency mixed with frightening independence
  • free will despite God’s omniscience and omnipotence

I don’t know why you should give thanks, but I know why I should.

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13

“I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” John 10:11

“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.” Ephesians 5:2

“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.” I John 4:7

“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” I Thessalonians 5:18

“O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth forever.” I Chronicles 16:34

“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” Psalm 100:4

“Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.” Psalm 68:19