Brandon, as always, I love the candor and transparency you exhibit as you share your walk with Jesus. You are an encouragement to me. Thank you! (I also love the new look of your page.) Thank you for sharing this post. As I read it, some things came to mind as I walk my own journey of discovering God’s favor. I’m learning that God often grants me his favor many times a day, but I fail to see it because my vision is distorted by busyness or cares of life. I’ve asked God to change my perspective so I can see His daily ‘gifts’ which proclaim his favor. In answer to this prayer, I’m noticing small details of life I used to either ignore or take for granted. Simple things such as a refreshing time with a friend, the ability to belly laugh after a good joke, the trilling melody as a bird worships outside my window, the light shafts filling my room after a cloudy day, or noticing the splendor of God’s creation while walking the dog–all gifts showing His favor because He allowed me to experience them with Him. Scriptures state all good things come from God, so when I begin to actively look for His good things with gratitude I can see His goodness and favor more readily.
I began to see life more fully through reading a book by Ann Voscamp “1000 Gifts” several years ago. She speaks to a time in her own life that was hard, and gifts seemed few. She started a ‘1000 gifts journal’ and began to actively look for God through the holes rubbed raw by life. This changed her world, and her book changed mine. God brought this amazing book at a time when life for me was very hard, and depression mixed with anger and bitterness were my daily lot.
Daddy is so amazing, and I’m so grateful I’m learning to see the lavish love I was blind to all along. I pray that as you grow in seeing God’s daily gifts through gratitude, your world will explode into brilliant color. Blessings, Robin 🙂
Your words make me laugh, as I remember learning about men’s ‘boxes’ and women’s ‘spaghetti’ (from Men are Like Waffles, Women are Like Spaghetti). You are right, you have to be a certain personality type to be able to read her. I just happened to be of the type that feed on her writings. Thanks for the laugh this evening! 😉
Ahhh, sweet Brandon! I love what my blogging friend Michael always says, “God is in a good mood.” Something that has really helped me is realizing God has made a huge investment in me. You don’t give your very life for people you’re going to be cranky and disappointed in. You also look after the people you have made a huge investment in.
Brandon J. Adams 
Brandon, as always, I love the candor and transparency you exhibit as you share your walk with Jesus. You are an encouragement to me. Thank you! (I also love the new look of your page.) Thank you for sharing this post. As I read it, some things came to mind as I walk my own journey of discovering God’s favor. I’m learning that God often grants me his favor many times a day, but I fail to see it because my vision is distorted by busyness or cares of life. I’ve asked God to change my perspective so I can see His daily ‘gifts’ which proclaim his favor. In answer to this prayer, I’m noticing small details of life I used to either ignore or take for granted. Simple things such as a refreshing time with a friend, the ability to belly laugh after a good joke, the trilling melody as a bird worships outside my window, the light shafts filling my room after a cloudy day, or noticing the splendor of God’s creation while walking the dog–all gifts showing His favor because He allowed me to experience them with Him. Scriptures state all good things come from God, so when I begin to actively look for His good things with gratitude I can see His goodness and favor more readily.
I began to see life more fully through reading a book by Ann Voscamp “1000 Gifts” several years ago. She speaks to a time in her own life that was hard, and gifts seemed few. She started a ‘1000 gifts journal’ and began to actively look for God through the holes rubbed raw by life. This changed her world, and her book changed mine. God brought this amazing book at a time when life for me was very hard, and depression mixed with anger and bitterness were my daily lot.
Daddy is so amazing, and I’m so grateful I’m learning to see the lavish love I was blind to all along. I pray that as you grow in seeing God’s daily gifts through gratitude, your world will explode into brilliant color. Blessings, Robin 🙂
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Interesting
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Voskamp can be hard to read (from a purely mechanical point of view…talk about spaghetti writing), but I read “Thousand Gifts” and it was great.
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Your words make me laugh, as I remember learning about men’s ‘boxes’ and women’s ‘spaghetti’ (from Men are Like Waffles, Women are Like Spaghetti). You are right, you have to be a certain personality type to be able to read her. I just happened to be of the type that feed on her writings. Thanks for the laugh this evening! 😉
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Ahhh, sweet Brandon! I love what my blogging friend Michael always says, “God is in a good mood.” Something that has really helped me is realizing God has made a huge investment in me. You don’t give your very life for people you’re going to be cranky and disappointed in. You also look after the people you have made a huge investment in.
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This is all really awesome stuff. God in a good mood? Totally breaks up my image of him. Thanks so much.
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Yay:)
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Thanks for re-posting David’s wonderful meditation! Love it! And I love your blog as well.
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Aw, thanks, Lynn.
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