In honor of Bruce Reyes-Chow's Birthday.

On his blog Bruce suggests a way to celebrate his 40th Birthday.

40 PRAYERS OF HOPE AND GRATITUDE

If you are a blogger or Facebook note writer, I would love for you to post a list of prayers for 40 things for which you are grateful, gives you hope or are in need of God's healing.

What a brilliant idea!

Here goes:
  1. Grateful for:
  1. My Family
  2. My Church
  3. God blessing us such that I can take a sabbatical and evaluate my life
  4. My family's health
  5. My health
  6. My Church
  7. My Church's Mission opportunities: The community Garden; our involvement in Family Promise
  8. Eldest daughter becoming a full member of our Church tomorrow
  9. Our youth program
  10. Time to work on my Golf game when I want to (see 1.2 above. :) )
  11. Time to take off and ride the Goldwing when I want to. (See... (you get the picture))
  12. Time to work on my writing when I get around to it.
  13. My fledgling startup: http://www.hakunamatataweb.com
  14. The friends and relatives who are being encouraging and supportive in my decisions.
  15. (It's coming down a frog killer out there.) A Nice dry house to sit and listen to the storm in.
  16. The creature comforts that I often take for granted.
  17. The blessing of talents to employ while I'm on sabbatical.
  18. The opportunity to use those talents to help my Church, Presbytery, Family Promise of Collin County.
  • Gives Me Hope:
    1. The American system of government works! President Obama was elected.
    2. America's image on the international stage is starting to improve.
    3. We are starting to get a bit more transparency in government. Long ways to go, but we're headed there.
    4. I live in a free country, where I can make the above statements without fear of reprisals. (This one goes in the Grateful category too by the way.)
    5. Advancing technology is giving us the ability to be more connected and more immediately a part of our world. I'm hoping it's going to give us the ability to shape it as well.
    6. Watching our Church youth. I believe they are better informed and more involved in their world than my generation ever was.
  • In Need of God's Healing:
    1. The economical times.
    2. Those that have lost their jobs because of the economical times
    3. Those that are under stress and duress during this time of turmoil
    4. Those that don't have close family
    5. Those that don't have a Church family, or an equivalent support system and source of love.
    6. Those that don't have their health
    7. Those that don't have close friends
    8. Those that are not comfortable with their lives
    9. Those for whom life is so busy and fraught with commitments that they can't take time for themselves, to find their joy
    10. The Swine Flu pandemic, or whatever it turns out to be.
    11. All in the world that don't have adequate shelter
    12. All in the world that don't' have adequate food
    13. The conflict in the middle-east
    14. The conflict in all the rest of the world (yes, I do see them as two different concerns.)
    15. Guidance for our Church and Denomination to discern our future direction. (Not implying that the Church or Denomination is in any way lost, just that we are always in need of guidance.)
    16. When we see all that needs to be done, and feel overwhelmed and under-equipped, when we fell like giving up, or throwing our hands up and waiting for "them" to take care of it all, may God forgive us and grant us the strength and wisdom to remember that God works through us, despite ourselves.

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