Amen! Thank God for the gift of choices - and I'll add my own thanksgiving for His compassion for those times in our lives when we don't choose wisely. I love how He takes our choices and especially our woundedness (so often inflicted on us by other people's bad choices) and turns them into tools to help others. I think of people like Lynnie and Dianne and so many other incredible women here, who have suffered so much, and yet it's by their very suffering that God is able to shine His most powerful healing light into the lives of others who might not be able to make it through without those "wounded healers". What tender love it takes to know just what people most need in the midst of their own struggle to choose life & hope.

His faithfulness makes me glad to be alive, His mercy makes me grateful for everything that has brought me to my here-and-now, and His wisdom helps me to embrace my past knowing that nothing goes to waste when we lay it in His hands.

I'm especially grateful I don't have to go out in the snow today! Big storm here! It's such a gift to be able to cosy up to the warm fire here at BWS. It really IS a good day to be alive, isn't it?