Skin!
Seriously though, skin is awesome. Next time you scratch your face and you don’t bleed till your dead, get an immediate infection or see your entire muscular and/or skeletal system in the mirror, praise the Lord.
Oranges!
In the last two days I’ve eaten two of perhaps the most deliciously juicy oranges I’ve ever had in my life. I am blown away by God’s creativity and kindness when I eat an orange.
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A Windshield!
Cold, wet, windy rain! Running from the office to the car. Stuffing papers into my coat to keep them from getting wet. Trying not to wipe out jumping over puddles.
Inside the car- Ahhhh, shelter from the storm. Thank you Lord, for a dry, safe and warm car!
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Auto Insurance!
An Awesome Sunrise
What a painter our Creator is!
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Drugs
Legal, pescription ones, I promise. 
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I’m coming off almost two weeks of bronchitis and other ailments and I’m profoundly thankful to be feeling a whole lot better thanks to two antibiodics and an inhaler. Praise the Lord for a job, insurance coverage, closeby and good medical staff, pharmacies and a patient caregiving wife.
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SNOW!
Not for muscle pain from shoveling, frostbite from grabbing the mail or bruised knees when going out to warm up the car and biting it.
But for SNOW. For two reasons.
1. This song: White As Snow
2. These comments from Martin Luther on Psalm 51:7:
“How can we become “purer than snow” even though the remnants of sin always cling to us? I answer: I have always said that man is divided into spirit and flesh. Therefore, as far as the total man is concerned, there remains remnants of sin or, as Paul calls them (2 Cor. 7:1), “defilements of body and spirit.” . . . Still we have obtained Baptism, which is most pure; we have obtained the Word, which is most pure; and in the Word and Baptism we have by faith obtained the blood of Christ, which is surely most pure. According to this purity, which in spirit and faith we have from Christ and from the Sacraments that He instituted, the Christian is rightly said to be purer than snow . . . even though the defilements of spirit and flesh cling to him. These are concealed and covered by the cleanness and purity of Christ . . .
. . . if you look at a Christian without the righteousness and purity of Christ, as he is in himself, even though he be most holy, you will find not only no cleanness, but what I might call diabolical blackness. . . . Therefore if they ask: “Sin always clings to man; how, then, can he be washed so as to make him whiter than snow?” you reply: “We should look at a man, not as he is in himself, but as he is in Christ.” (Commentary on Ps.51 Martin Luther pp. 366-367)
Heat!
Last week I ran into a neighbor at a gas station near our homes. He mentioned his car having no heat. He said he wanted to make the drive out to see his parents in another state but had to wait for the weather to change before he could make the trip.
How blessed am I? I have heat in BOTH of my vehicles and my parents are in the same state as me!
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Hot Water
When you are reading a book by the President and CEO of Christian humanitarian and gospel ministry World Vision about the horrors of global poverty, the lack of clean water, sanitation, medical care, war and corruption in so many of this world’s countries – man it makes you so thankful for a hot shower. On demand, every day, clean and affordable. Unbelievable blessing from God.
“For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?” – 1 Corinthians 4:7
City Services and Neighbors
They plowed our street last night. This almost never happens, but with all the snow the last week or so, we’ve received not one, but TWO street plowings!
The only challenge this service creates is the mountains of snow from the street that make it literally impossible for us to get out of our driveways unless we drive a monster truck. At 6:30am, there we were. Digging and snow blowing each other’s driveway aprons so we could get to work on time. Thank you, Lord.
