I'm grateful

I'm grateful for quite Sabbaths with blessings of answered prayers...
I'm grateful for friends who stop to bow their heads and send a prayer heavenward on a moment's notice...
I'm grateful for friends who check up on me, feed me, and support me...
I'm grateful to a God who inclines his head to hear, and stretches out his hand to heal...

"Born of a Woman—Atonement and the Incarnation"

That's the title of this week's Bible study guide ...

I liked how Wordle summed it up. ("Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.")

What is prominent in the text of your life?

A door slammed in your face?

"...Where is God? ... go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence...I have been gradually coming to feel that the door is no longer shut and bolted. Was it my own frantic need that slammed it in my face? The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just the time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear. On the other hand, "Knock and it shall be opened." But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?" (C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed)