You've Shown Me

Life is a lesson -- I learn as I go.
YOU TEACH

Pain strengthens character, often I am broken.
YOU REBUILD ME

Love is your gift that I've tried to steal away or create.
YOU GENTLY APPREHEND

Tears are my sorrows and my joys.
YOU COUNT THEM AND COLLECT

Laughter.  It is abundant and medicine for my soul.
YOU ARE THE SOURCE OF MY JOY

Prayer is my time with you....the most sacred of gifts.
YOU ARE ALWAYS READY TO LISTEN....AND WAITING WITH WISDOM

I ask.  YOU ANSWER.  I seek.  YOU SHOW.  I knock.  IT IS OPENED.

You know, I might be tempted to say "gifts" is God's love language....however, I am pretty sure He is multilingual.  He probably wonders why we limit it to merely 5  :)  

We just finished putting together a picture collage for our home and I am struck by how blessed I am...the frame I had purchased could hold 21 photos, so I made a bunch of pictures from the last two years and Brad and I went to work filling the frames with our favorite pictures.  Tonight Brad mounted it between our family room and dining room and I am very pleased with it....of course, aesthetically, but also as a testimony to how much God loves us. 

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, 

which is why we call it the present."

~Bil Keane (American Cartoonist - The Family Circus)

So, seize this day.  It is a gift.

(This picture is captivating.)